 The shortest handover song he's ever sung. This is his birthday. How do I stop it? Just hit stop. Can you do it? Here. Go on, let's not do that again. No, no, no. Just hit pause. Oh, he's gone. Is there anything else after that? Yeah, this, my thing here. Oh, that's great. Thanks. You calmed everything down. I liked her guest too. I think it should start a trend. So her guest was a cat scratching a man. And I think tomorrow someone should get a dog sitting on a bug. Or a pig eating a twig. You're rhyming. Yeah, that sounds good. Or a cow. I don't know. I think old guesses now should rhyme. Yes, okay. Yeah, all right. Frog and a log. Is it a frog and a log? I just don't want to guess. Cat and a man. I don't want to guess. Dog and a bug. Because I could say something bad. That's what I shouldn't be saying. Do you know what I mean? So I'm just going to leave it to that. A knit. A knit. No, don't you throw a word at me. What about a truck? Go to. Go to. All right then. Good luck. Bye, Liz. He's back to morning. Bright and early at 6.30. All right, it is the 9.00 noon show. Coming up right now. But let's get a news update just first and say good morning now to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. A Shane Fane motion calling on the government to reinstate 50-50 funding for the A-5 passed in the Dull last night with all party support. The motion was not opposed by the government. Welcoming the government's approach, Heather McLaughlin stressed the importance of the road upgrade from a safety point of view as well as its importance as an economic driver. He said the government must now follow through. I'm pleased that the government has supported this motion tonight because it means that the commitment that was made those years ago for a 50-50 funding of this road is now back on the table again. That's what this motion means tonight. And that's an important message when we get these planning issues finally resolved. And it's thanks to the communities who've rose up into our own and they're backed by all the communities and the counties around them 100%. W.M.Milcrocron also told the Dull the 10-T project in Zingol which will link up with the A-5 is vitally important and the momentum which is gathered around it must also be maintained. Three men are due in court today in connection with the attempted murder of a PSNI officer in Turon. The 45, 47 and 58-year-olds were detained yesterday. They faced charges of preparatory acts of terrorism in relation to the gun attack of Chief Inspector John Caldwell in Oma last February. Two of the men also faced charges of possession of articles for use in terrorism and providing property for the purposes of terrorism. A burst water main may cause supply disruptions to Muslak, Rossapena, Downings and surrounding areas today. Ishgairan expects the works to last until three this afternoon. Householders and businesses are being advised to allow another two to three hours after that to allow supplies returned to normal. And 90% of people don't know if they live in an area where red-on gas could be seeping into their homes. The colorless, odorless gases linked to lung and other forms of cancer. A new ASRI study shows 72% would test for red-on if they knew there was a risk in their area. A new map's been designed to help people assess the risks with a number of high-risk areas in Donegal. ESRI researcher Dr Shane Timmons says they hope it'll encourage people to act. People told us that they didn't like maps that use statistics. For example, people disliked maps that said one in five homes in this area are at risk compared to just being told that a certain area is high-risk for red-on. Later on in the study, people who saw those statistics were actually more willing to say they would test their homes. Sometimes information that makes us a bit uncomfortable can be exactly what we need to get us to take action on something. And you can search that map for individual air-code risks and there's a link to the map on our website, HighlandRadio.com, where the forecast, the mix of sunny spells and scattered passing showers today sound a bit heavy, but they won't be as heavy or frequent as they have been in previous days. There's a 15- to 18-degree Celsius in moderate to fresh westerly winds, coolest closer to the Atlantic coast. And that's Highland Radio News, back with news in full at 10 o'clock. Great news. That was our agent on the phone. And? We're booked for a tour of the Arctic Circle. Jim, we're comedians. Not penguins. Actually, they're in the Antarctic. And what about the lotto? What if our favourite numbers come up when we're off telling knock-knock jokes to polar bears? That's actually funny. You're funny. Now you can schedule your favourite lotto and EuroMillions numbers up to 12 months in advance and pay as you play. Download the National Lottery app to schedule your play. The National Lottery. It could be you. Play responsibly. Play for fun. It's time for the talk of the Northwest, the Ninetown Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello. Good morning to you. It's just turned five minutes past nine on this Wednesday, the 5th of July, 2023. It's another edition of the Ninetown Noon Show and it's another invite for you to get involved in the conversation. Raise your own issues. Have your own chats with me, hopefully, or I can just put two callers away together and go for tea. Anyway, how did you get in contact with us? What's up, protects 086625,000. 086625,000. If you are what's happening also texting us from outside, the Republic is 0035386625,000. If you want to give us a call, it's 07491 25,000. Again, I'll remind you outside the Republic, 003537491 25,000. And you e-mails from anywhere in the world. Comments at highlanderadio.com. All right, let's have a look at the front of the newspapers this morning. And inside, in some, we'll start with the locals. And in the Finn Valley voice, they have a lovely picture of Father Sean Doherty in our studios here. And the story along with it by Celine McGlin. A beloved voice of local radio will now be heard from the altar as the Reverend Father Sean Doherty starts the new chapter of his life. I said Sean Quinn, I think it stopped because he's standing up beside Sean Quinn's desk in the picture. My apologies, of course, it's Father Sean Doherty. He was ordained to the priesthood at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry on Sunday. The voice and the name were synonymous with the Sean Doherty show in Highland Radio for 27 years. Okay, and we've got some quotes from our interview with him yesterday. Now, the front of the Donegal Post, a murder investigation is expected to be launched following a post-mortem examination on a body found at Schlieff League on Monday. However, results of the post-mortem examination carried out by the state pathologist Dr Linda Mulligan on Tuesday are not being released for operational reasons. Human remains were recovered from the water below the towering southwest Donegal cliffs in the early hours of Monday. Guardi remained tight-lipped, but it is believed that the body is that of a man in his 60s who disappeared last weekend after what has been so far described as an alleged assault. Earlier this week, senior Guardi indicated that pending the results of the post-mortem and the formal identification of the body, the probe could be escalated to a murder investigation. An instant room under the direction of a senior investigating officer has been set up at Bali Shannon Guardi Station. The Innish Times tells us that the government has failed to listen to those affected. The Micah Action Group have expressed serious concerns over the revised defective concrete block scheme which expects homeowners to face major obstacles or be excluded completely. The revised scheme was announced on Monday by Housing Minister Dara O'Brien. It'll provide financial support to affected homeowners in counties Donegal, Mayo, Limerick and Claire whose dwelling had been damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks in its construction. Grants of up to 420,000 euro are available for affected homeowners depending on the work required under the scheme. Now what we are hoping to do or what we are going to do is try and put together a panel and run through some realistic situations as it relates to the size of a house how much it might be expected to cost how someone might avail of that grant or what they could get in terms of rebuild costs value wise from the money they might be able to receive from government. There are people still going through this document it is a complex enough one but what we are going to try and do is break it down until in real terms what does this mean that people might be able to get their house fully restored under the grant how much might someone with a certain size have to add and so on and so forth so we are going to be doing that piece of work later this week or perhaps maybe early next week but just to have a group of individuals independent of the whole situation who will be able to advise us all of us in that regard so hopefully that might be useful as I say it is something we are going to work on to be involved in maybe you are a QS or a builder or a contractor or you work in the industry get in touch with us 08 660 25000 or call 07 491 25000 right okay the RTE controversy is going to be back before an Arctis committee again today and it is going to be very interesting indeed because even more information has emerged further to what was already in the public domain RTE rented outspace at Croke Park for six weeks last year in order to hold rehearsals for its box office flop toy show The Musical this is the Irish Independent there is growing political concern over the money spent by the embattled broadcaster on the stage spin-off of The Late Late Show which ran at the 2000 seat a convention centre last December the show received poor reviews and failed to sell out it emerged last night that there are new barter accounts similar to the one used to top up Ryan Tauberty's salary believed to be linked to The Musical the executive board sat in front of these committees and they were asked and the chief financial officer was asked really quite clearly are there any other barter accounts is this the only barter account and they said yes this is the only barter account as it turns out there were more now ignorance is not a defence in this regard if you are paid 250 odd thousand euro to be in charge of finances I don't think you can say well I didn't know there was more than one that was an honest answer at that time I don't think in this case ignorance will be a defence well RT told the Arctis media committee late last night that it was not able to provide details on expenditure on toy show The Musical due to ongoing financial verification and said these records will be supplied as early as possible now there was a response given to that question in the first committee meeting I don't think any of the politicians picked up on it but it was a bit of verbal gymnastics because the person who was answering the question to that he said that he couldn't give an answer right now because they don't know if it's coming back again so what effectively that was indicating I believe it was to say a bit of verbal gymnastics was they have a set they've got loads and loads of other stuff to support the show if it's not going to go again that would have to be factored into losses but if they were to run it again they wouldn't say that was losses infrastructure for the whole thing but as I say when those questions were being answered no one came with any follow-up questions and yet here we are so I imagine when that question is answered whether or not the show goes ahead will form part of the answer so take a note of that and we'll see how that pans out it's been reported RTE spent as much as 2 million euro on the failed musical although some insiders believe it could be up to 3 million and they further claim the losses from it are significant as well too and this is something I think should be clarified that they stated that the show was being not run for a certain number of days because staff were sick or the show people were sick or whatever and at that time it was speculated that the reason they didn't put the show on for those days and the reason they shortened the run was because no one was buying tickets but they said publicly and it was to do with public money of course they said I believe that I'd be interested to find out if that was the truth now right on to the Irish Times and the coalition has agreed a budget package worth 6.4 billion euro signing off on the summer economic statement which saw a tax package worth 1.15 billion agreed core expenditure will rise by 5.25 billion in 2024 or 6.1% giving an overall budget package of 6.4 billion the summer economic statement sets out the parameters for the budget 2024 discussions had been ongoing for 5 weeks with multiple meetings between party leaders and Minister for Finance Michael McGraw as well as Minister for Public Expenditure Pascal O'Donohue as reported in the Irish Times the government will breach its own budget spending rules for the second year running although ministers were said yesterday morning that the adjustments is modest now as I say this spending cap that the government have put in place of their own doing it is they that have decided that we will only spend this much so in breaching it as they say it's like me saying that I'm only going to have one biscuit with my tea and having two biscuits effectively it was me set the target of one biscuit alright okay anyway I'm hungry already the Irish Daily mail now and MetaBoss Mark Zuckerberg is looking to capitalise on the latest chaos at Twitter by luring users away from his own rival platform the tech giant which owns Instagram and Facebook and also WhatsApp has unveiled a new app called threads that looks exactly the same as Elon Musk's site screenshots suggest it will also feature buttons resembling Twitter like and retweet functions big name celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and even the Dalai Lama are already reportedly being courted to set up top accounts set to launch tomorrow it is the latest move in the escalating tit-for-tat war between the two multi-billionaire tech bosses the pair have even agreed recently to take each other on in a cage fight following a light hearted war of words online so I think this is going to be the most significant entry into the social media market for quite some time because it's got the Meta machine behind it for a lot of people Twitter lots and lots of people in this country use it but for those that do it's become really quite clunky it's become a space where extreme views are to the fore it seems moderate views don't seem to get a look in any longer and there's quite a lot of hate on it if the truth be told there'll be more threads from Facebook will appeal to I suppose you could end up with a situation you've got one type of group of people that form on one and the other but I just believe that that is the biggest threat to Twitter because it's got the Facebook machine behind it it's not available on Android yet I think it's only being launched on iPhone in the United States tomorrow so if you want to use it here you're going to have to wait a wee while on to the Irish Daily Star now and the highest number of prisoners on record is now being held in Irish jails as bosses scrambled to deal with an overcrowding crisis yesterday the Irish prison service marked a record 4,718 inmates in the system with only 4,478 beds available that's the highest number of Irish prisoners in custody on record and there are concerns it will rise in the coming days due to ongoing court proceedings as of yesterday there are 219 prisoners sleeping on mattresses the docus centre women's prison is the most over capacity recording 236 prisoners in the system despite there only being 146 beds on Monday evening and I suppose everyone deserves a bed but at least they have a mattress and at least they're indoors there are people who've committed no crime at all that are in worse off positions that being said I'm not saying it's something that should be ignored we have to treat everybody fairly to some extent don't you right do you remember this is an interesting story it's from Britain but still I think it's somewhat interesting do you remember Captain Tom Moore he was the older gentleman I can't remember what the context was was it was he on well I'll read it we'll find out but he was walking with his walking aid he was walking around his garden or something it might have been during lockdown and he was nighting and all that kind of stuff and there was a fund setup a fundraising fundraiser setup but now it's been suspended it's an interesting story and the picture is actually really quite interesting Captain Tom Moore's daughter has been ordered to demolish a spa complex she built in a garden under the guise of his charity after it was exposed by the sun now this building is it sounds like a spa room it's huge it's a big U shaped building and it's right beside a massive seven bedroomed house well Hannah Ingram Moore who's 52 and husband Colin had told planners they wanted an office for the lockdown NHS fundraising heroes foundation they were granted permission for an L shaped building in the grounds of their 1.2 million euro home but they changed the design to create a huge C shaped 50 foot by 20 foot pool house with changing rooms toilets and showers planning chiefs have ordered the building in the grounds of the family seven bedroomed grade three listed house in Bedfordshire to be torn down they're appealing it but also the charity commission is investigating the whole charity and also they've stopped taking money as a result and all that stuff right okay and let's see it was confirmed yesterday just as the follow-up finally in the Irish Daily Mirror that free GP healthcare will be rolled out to an additional 500,000 people under the government's plans confirmed yesterday as I mentioned the scheme will be extended to include all six and seven year olds which is around 78,000 children regardless of their parents income in addition the estimated 430,000 people who earn up to the median household income will also be included and we're still waiting for a response from the GP's organization to tell us how they're going to accommodate all of those people right 08 660 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Michael Fitzmaras good morning Michael thanks for joining us are you well I'm doing good thanks to have you good to have you on the program right you along with deputy Marion Harkin and deputy Michael McNamara are hosting a public meeting to address the national natural restoration laws proposed and I think they've been adopted to some extent haven't they by the EU the stages of it at the moment just when you're listening up to speed the nature restoration law that has been proposed by the commission went into agriculture but it was rejected it went into fisheries it was rejected but those rejections don't count it went into the environment commission that is the main lead in it it the vote on it was 44 44 so then it progresses on to parliament so it's making its way I think next week it will be voted on in parliament there is also another proposal and this is where all the confusion has been has occurred the council of ministers the ministers from each country has put a proposal together and that is the proposal that's going forward and I understand that there was actually a third proposal from the parliament and the reason that we're doing this meeting first of all is that we're going to have a meeting this morning at 10 o'clock so that your listeners will know here in the Dall in Insta house I have a motion signed by Deputy Harkin and Deputy McNamara the government would reject the commission proposal the council of ministers proposal is a more workable proposal but it needs tweaking as well especially for those in your own area in the line of the hill and farmers and indeed Lola and farmers this unfortunately you've muted there I suspect you might have a telephone call coming through Michael if you could unmute for us no okay I'm not really quite sure there that line is muted we'll see if we can get Michael Fitzmaris back because it is an important issue and as he mentioned there it is going to it is going to impact are they are Michael you're back with us are you sorry I think you might have had a call coming through there and if you're on an iPhone it tends to auto-mute so can you tell us what your concerns are with the proposals and with the being two sets of proposals and one maybe being more agreeable than the other it starts to get really confusing I think anyway for me and I'm sure for others listening so what are the proposals that you think are agreeable well first of all the proposals that's not agreeable is the commission's proposal where they are looking for 70% of what we call drained agricultural peatland but to put that into context that's land that has been shored land that has been this cattle sheep or whatever on and it's also mountain land and to Neagle is plenty of mountains in many parts of it that's not acceptable that farmers would do that because bear in mind and be very clear on this the state does not own agricultural drained peatland they own peatland they own different tracks of land but they do not own agricultural drained peatland the council of ministers proposal is one where they have brought the figures down and they have give themselves a bit of leeway to basically use other lands born on a lands culture lands or whatever but the one part of it is that there is still clauses under different articles that would catch people in the mountain areas and the second worry and part of it is on this motion this morning that we are doing in the doll we had asked that the government would basically give right into the legislation that no farmer would be compulsory if they were required to re-wish any of their lands and they have actually put an amendment this morning and basically refuted or won't even talk about that which is eyebrow raising which is worrying for farmers right around this country when they won't give the guarantee even though that verbally they are shouting it everywhere around the country the last month and what would the consequences be of them progressing and what plans do you think I mean I've heard some people claiming that they even could lead to the depopulation of rural Ireland how would the reality of it is for the next few years and I want to be clear on this because you'd be accused of scaremongering very quick by government side if you don't give accurate information born a mona is our understanding that's going to pick up the slack for the next few years if that goes through in the commission's proposal that you would be required to re-wet land that you have cattle or sheep or cows or whatever on over the last number of years and if you had to do that it would basically destabilise a lot of farmers we look at a lot of farmers in the area that you cover smaller farmers average type land and they wouldn't survive so if you to re-wet your land you don't have to get up in the morning and walk out and go counting cattle or go burning cows for mink or go basically watching yours for yen you can basically live wherever you want and it would cause in my view abandonment of lands it would cause abandonments in communities and it would desalate because why we have to remember you can give money to a farmer but if they don't need to live there well then they can go wherever they want and at the end of the day we build our communities on people living in areas that's the facts of Ireland in the rural areas and this is the big big worry of the legislation that the commission is proposing but it is worrying that under the council of ministers proposal which is a more reasonable proposal I will say that that the government isn't prepared this morning to state clearly that privately owned lands be it hill or be it lowland would not be affected and that is a worrying worrying part for everyone from the top of the Negal right through the west of Ireland right down along you can go to West Cork in the marginal PTCI land and you can go out as far as Offley and Kildare actually large tracts of the midlands as well would be affected and that is the worrying part of this I'm not saying they're connected but your scenario if it were to play out when you tie that in with targets in terms of forestry and you could even then maybe chuck in the zoning tax in and around towns and villages across the Negal and beyond that effectively people feel is a land grab and to tax farmers off that land in and around more urban areas populated areas it's no country for the old farmer is it well it's getting there is fair headwind at the moment under agendas that's being pushed but it's our job to actually highlight would you believe it this is the year going on I broke this story one year ago it was denied at the time and it actually said this wasn't happening and that wasn't happening but it all came along the road over the last year and what you must remember as you rightly pointed out if you look at the targets Ireland is looking at in forestry we're looking at 500,000 hect acres which is about 1.25 million acres if you look at the targets in the commissions proposal it would work out that you would be taking 2 million acres of land out of the system between now and 2050 and that's a fifth so 1 in every 5 acres but bear in mind for the people in Nenigal or the people where I'm from in Galway and Raskaman and the people along the western shoreline you won't be going to the golden veal planted trees you won't be going to the golden veal to re-wish because the land is of a high quality you won't be going to the hills in Mead to do any of those things what they will be looking at is the western shore from the top of Nenigal as I've outlined already down along the area that I've mentioned and you would do desperate, desperate damage to communities if these proposals went through on its farm and that's why farmers deserve to know I will ask the question there is legislation being pushed through in Europe from these people look out the window and they see asphalt and they see concrete and a lot of them wouldn't even know what P.D. Seyles is about and those people are sending legislation through here that's going to affect the lives not a lot of the farmers is farming at the moment but we're trying to get younger farmers and younger people into agriculture and these lives will be affected down the way and like Wujja for example if in the morning a minister announced that we're going to have every kid and teacher teaching Wusathala we're going to decide we're going to pay like and whatever flowers is grown if you look at some of the stipulations or some of the articles that's in these documents there is areas that you cannot even walk on once they would be put in under this nature restoration law and that's not the way to go forward you have to work with people you have to bring in sensible proposals not something that will decimate communities and I think one thing we must say and it's not often I'd say it, that it's not Irish politicians we have to thank for basically trying to hold this up at the moment it is actually the Germans the Dutch the Polish and countries like that who have basically fought hard against it at the moment to try and stop it on these tracks all right thanks for your time this morning I really do appreciate it that is independent deputy Michael Fitz Morris that public meeting on EU nature restoration laws is taking place today in the sheer water in Balanslow at 1pm so I mean obviously it's very I mean you're not going to get there now but anyway just to give you an idea of what they are talking about there okay we'll be speaking to Dr Dennis McCawley a GP member of the GP subcommittee of the IMO in terms of this new deal for extra free GP access and what implications it might have and how it actually might work after these skipping nights out missing the crack we watching classics and learning new tricks being driven to the biggest game of your life by your mam and then you finally come on in the 51st minute it's the minor moments that last a lifetime the electric 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dunny gall and the shores of the ennis own peninsula visit eaf.ie for full details on arigal arts festival proudly supported by dunny gall county council right minister for health steven donnelly and minister for public expenditure national development plan delivery and reform donna who have announced details of the commencement of the provision of gp visit cards to over 500,000 more people children aged 6 and 7 and to all of those earning no more than the median income following agreement with the irish medical organisation gp visit cards permit the holder to access gp care without charges and this measure represents according to the government the largest expansion in access to gp care without charges in the history of the state so it sounds on the face of it like a really positive development and perhaps it is let's get an insight though from gp and member of the gp subcommittee of the iron mo or the iron mo beg your pardon dr denis mccawley denis good to see you again how are you keeping thanks for making yourself available to us okay so i mean the obvious thing and i've pointed this out yesterday and i'm not trying to be negative is is that you know dependent on where you live in this county and country at some people are struggling now to get a phone answered or to get a visit for to a gp and i don't think anyone's purposely hanging up the phone or just making a decision to refuse to see people are clearly already under pressure so i ask how can our current network of gps deal with a massive surge in people visiting gps with these medical cards i wonder i think you make a very valid point we've been in negotiations with the government i think there's just the context of this is all your listeners are aware that the demand for gp services are basically greatly outstrips the ability for us to actually give it at the present minute and that is a worry and your listeners know it from the point of view of trying to get the same day service that they got 10 years ago we cannot get to get today that is a fact we have advocated this with the government but it's government policy and we have to as it were negotiate with that context i suppose there's a full stop at the end of that sentence which is very important i really i think it's the best of a bad lot i think all of the political parties recently have been viewed to accelerate free gp care for all in a very short format thankfully both the opposition ministers the opposition health spokesmen as well as the the minister for health are now beginning to recognize at last because they add the advocacy of the Irish medical organization that this is a system that is sort of working and the more you pressurize it it will then not work like all the other parts so i think the full stop at the end of that sentence is the important thing there's no discussion about further rollout i think this is government policy we have to adapt to it but i think the this madness that was in there was a madness in the door recently that said that everybody can get free gp care and that it will not affect the care that they're actually giving and i think thankfully there's beginning to be a bit of a realization about that this is real politics this is the best we could get in that no further expansion because of the demands this is what we have got and i think hopefully um gotten better hopefully that will be the end of it for a while because i think there's no doubt that the introduction of these cards on a personal level for the people who are on the median health income who cannot go and see their doctor for free that is a positive thing but from a holistic societal point of view this will have an impact further on the workload of us of our practices and it will be you know harder to see your gp because of it yeah so then with that in mind and with respect to you and you're one gp not every gp but how then could the imo sign up to this accept a package worth in excess of 30 million in full knowledge that they can't provide the service for which they've signed up to and accepted 30 million euro for i mean you can't sort of ride two horses on this either not you personally i mean gps i think it's it is it is it is a very difficult situation i think there's two there's two ways of looking at that Greg if you're a patient of my practice that i've looked after for 10 years for 20 i'm my 30 years 30 years and i've looked after you all my life and you're now entitled to a medical card am i going to say no no if you're a person coming to balba fe and you want to come and enjoy my practice i'm going to say no so it is it is there is it isn't that these people don't have a quite a lot of these people are patients of doctors and have been looking at them for years so the moral i could say i'm going on strike i'm not taking these patients but then i'll see my patient in the corridor so there's a bit there's a slight moral jeopardy there but i think the important thing is that what it does mean that once again it'll be harder for patients to come to a time to get a GP it'll be different if you're coming back home from being abroad is it a case that if the truth be told because the financial barrier has been removed that the current cohort of people who will now be entitled to free GP care are more likely to attend more regularly airing on the side of the portion and that increases the workload it doesn't necessarily make the service available to more people in fact it might make the service available to less people because it's harder to take people on because the truth be told and i'm not saying people go to the GP for no reason but the truth be told people who are already members of GP's practices who now can attend for free are going to attend more often i think it's like i always said and it's a comment that has been repeated many times this is a fact it's not a moral judgment i think if you if you remove financial barrier to any service i would attend my dentist more often probably if i didn't have to pay i would attend my GP more often if i didn't have to pay that's a fact it's not a moral judgment but it is a fact that there will be bigger request each day for people to see their GP therefore in the round there will be difficulties now i suppose it's like any negotiation nobody's happy but i'm more content i'm worried and i'm concerned in relation to the demand that this is going to have but i think you have to look at it i'm coming here in retirement of a much vaulted retirement i keep talking with my retirement but the GP's that are coming after me i would like to make sure that they are not in a situation like they have in northern Ireland and i think we've now begun to make the to that sugar rush politicians get about giving free GP care hopefully that is now easing and they realise that listen to general practice thing that we've all going up with that works that treats public and private the same there's no waiting lists by our political decisions we're going to put that in danger now this is hopefully the last deal and maybe the new government wants a further last deal but it is the important thing is that i think people are beginning to realise general practice is in trouble there is a significant work workforce issue we can't get enough gps we haven't got enough buildings for the tps even in donningall where the northwestern health board of old give it give fantastic health centres all over the country all over the county our practice is now at capacity every building we every room we have used we are we are using so therefore there is there is a danger of general practice including in northern Ireland face to face consultations the average GP is seeing one two three four face to face consultations a day most of it has been done by telephone because of the demand that is there i don't want this that for this lack of professional profession that i love and i'm very proud of it and i don't want it to be diminished yeah but the lack of capacity within gps obviously then drives more traffic to acute hospital settings which is where people where people shouldn't be also the concern i would have if that's okay is that i think it's estimated we're going to have a short fall by twenty twenty five of fourteen hundred gps in this country and that's probably reasonably conservative as well now under this plan the number of GP training places to increase its intake from two hundred and fifty eight which is low already to three hundred and fifty the total number of trainees undertaking the four-year program will increase from the current nine hundred and thirty two to thirteen hundred in twenty twenty six now with people like yourself retiring we hope it's not any time soon we're spending thirty million euro to stand still i'm not sure how many gps might exit over the next four years but the figures aren't ambitious enough to meet current demand yet we are increasing the demand on that demand right so wait so the the plan that has unveiled the plan has unveiled is doomed to failure and it's it's a statistical fact it's not an opinion because we are short fourteen hundred gps and over the next three years we might have thirteen hundred delivered that's if they stay in this country well i think it's the same thing great you should come into us when we're discussing with the government you're articulating the situation perfectly it's no good turning on the top to increase the amount of gps there are when more are leaving and retiring which it is if you if you make a situation in general practice which is very stressful i'm an older gp i have the experience to sort of to sort of maybe handle the work pressure slightly better but it's very very difficult and i'm getting tired of it but a young this is not attractive to young gps so they're they're getting qualified in Ireland they're doing their strategy amount of work within Ireland and then they're saying when i rather work here or when i rather work in Canada or Australia and the vast majority of them are saying i'm out of here so it doesn't matter amount of work places that extra pieces you give if that if all those people are leaving you're still going to be left with a deficit i think it's a very finely it's a very fine issue here i think that this is the least worst option but it's something that's still going to affect the day-to-day ability of your listeners to see their gp and that's without a doubt and it is getting more and more stressful i would speak to gps you know off the record and this isn't a this is even like the one example it's getting more difficult from what i and you don't have to commentate this or not it's not a commentary on immigration and immigration it's not a commentary on people's background or our immigration policy but even simply the workload increasing and having to deal with people whose first language is in English do you know i think i think that is a very minor point i think that the major issue is that we cannot get the care for our patients that we want in the hospital so we are treating people who we shouldn't be treating we are treating people as i said before in our recent interview we are making codeine addicts of a whole lot of older people because they have to stay on high dose medicines for longer time because they can't get their hip done so there is huge issues here i think the pressures and there's you could come this is a discussion over a cup of coffee when you have high court judges talking about absolute certainty in relation to your diagnostic ability you have to be a hundred percent sure you have to refer more than you would normally you know this is really really difficult stuff so general practice is in significant flux it's in significant trouble and we have to make sure that we do not overburden it and i think the one is the solution okay i get you and i actually this is why i love doing shows like this because i hear one thing from one person and then i hear another thing for another taken it from you and and then then we you know i learn and understand and know what to repeat and what not to repeat into the future but Dennis how do we fix this then because there's talk of of taking medical professionals from other parts of the world as well and there's a moral question there in that you know to satisfy our need is it fair to be taking highly trained medical professionals from other countries that they themselves have a shortage but i suppose we we are hemorrhaging hemorrhaging i think that whether you're a consultant or a GP make the the environment we're not talking about money here we're talking about the environment in which you work to be respected does a new consultant coming to letter Kenny he immediately feel respected will he have support staff will he have enough junior doctors to work with them to give an actual service will you have simple things like a secretary will those things happen yeah i get you all right therefore so i think it is to make these services to make the people all the people with their nurses doctors reception staff make it a service which is simple things can be done but i think it's just it is morally if we're taken to GPs from other areas and we're and we are training enough GPs what's wrong we're just not treating people with respect i get to making their life their work conditions intolerable unsafe and they are very worried about making mistakes right thanks very much for your time i appreciate it that's dr. Dennis McCawley shameless how are you getting on how you doing that Greg you think the free GP care is a load of nonsense it's a joke you can't even at this particular moment get him to see your local GP yeah it's humanly and utterly impossible and there is people with serious conditions that can't even get to see them and that's a fact and i mean this James i'm gonna say what i'm told and then you can tell me what your reaction is GPs aren't behind the doors twiddling their thumbs what dr. McCawley has said quite clearly is is that there's not enough GPs and particularly in some areas there are simply not enough GPs to meet the demands of the public for appointments yes i agree but why does our local or any other GP not stand up and be counted and say this they're passing all this on to their patients like it's not the patients fault they're not going to the doctor just for the crack like it's it's unbelievable when you phone a GP now you get through to a secretary you tell her what your conditions are what she should not have to be done because some people's conditions are personal then you are passed on to not even passed on you are to hold them and we'll phone you back then you go over the whole story with her then she will tell you she will phone you back then she'll phone you back and tell you if you're liable to see the GP or not yeah like what kind of service is just like unbelievable and all this started out of when COVID came everything was right going around before that but why now after COVID or during COVID this all took place well certainly after it because I mean has there been a mass influx of people contacting their GP post COVID versus pre COVID that's your question there's no particular reason why that should be the case why now when everything was going around before but that's the question that needs to be asked yeah well I mean our population has grown significantly not within two years of COVID right okay like no no no population grows that much within two years of what we are seeing here today okay would it put you offering in the GP Sheamus would it put you offering in the GP Sheamus particularly for the privacy reasons there's no point in ringing the GP so what do you do if you feel sick there's no point but what do you do if you feel sick you follow them and you'll be told if it's really bad go to A&E and this is quite the step and the reason that A&E has today like your GP won't even see you they'll refer you straight to A&E like maybe they could treat you without going to A&E yeah and you're taking up the room then for somebody that really needs to be in A&E my concern though is that people that do need to be in A&E don't ring the GP for the reasons you've been outlining and end up having worst outcomes that's exactly what's happening that's exactly what's happening and in my opinion the government is down the line forcing the ordinary person to take out a private insurance that's what it seems to be all aimed at but the government is trying to deliver this free GP care do you think the GP shouldn't have signed up to it if they can't deliver what the government's promising that's the issue I have I mean the government have gone to the they've gone to the GPs and they've said look at we're going to give you 30 odd million 32 million and we're going to announce that we're going to provide all these free GP places these GP cards should the IMO have signed up to that and taken that money if as we heard from Dr Macaulay they can't really deliver I think he described it as the best of the worst options I mean should the IMO have said no you're not going to announce this because we can't deliver it no that's exactly what they should have done and Dr Macaulay there said it wasn't about money money it's all about money everything that revolves is about money yeah I thought that was enough it's hard to argue against that like he says here it's not about money it's about money okay I have to take a break for the news at 10 thank you very much indeed Seamus in fact I have a couple of breaks to take I'm going to take this quick break come back with the comments and the news and a bit of re-notes I've just had the eclipse cinema's experience wow they truly have taken a night at the movies to a whole new level amazing recliner chairs director's lounge v.a.p. rooms pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza Waves skillnet is recruiting for its nationally recognized radio presenter course. Apply now to learn how to research, produce and present great radio content and give real-life experience in a local, regional or national radio station. Make a demo and get on air. To find out more visit learningwaves.ie now. Closing date for applications is the 6th of July. This course is funded by Learning Waves and Skillnet Ireland terms and conditions apply. Listening to discussions with the GP, they need to embrace prescribing nurse practitioners who can help ease the pressure. This has been shown to be effective in the UK. Lots of patients like to see the nurse practitioner and other. Greg, sure all new people come into this country, get medical cards bound to have an effect on seeing a GP. Another, if there was a possibility of MRI scan and full check-up once every six months it would ease people's minds, especially as they get older. Another caller says, of course it's a good thing to bring more free GP visits. Just educate parents not to visit the GP unnecessarily. Also educate GPs not to dish out unnecessary antibiotics. There shouldn't be more pressure on GPs because of bringing in free six and seven-year-olds. I think particularly with some of the commentary on certain medical conditions that was going around this year, I think GPs are under a lot of pressure to prescribe antibiotics and I think they probably have to deal with that in their practice on a daily basis. I just think it's very hard to educate parents, me amongst them, not to visit a GP unnecessarily because you never really do that. But I suppose if that financial barrier is taken from it, you probably may be more inclined to err in the side of the caution. Whether that's right or wrong, I just think it's a fact. A caller says, people with long-term illnesses were promised free GP cards back in 2012 by the Finnegal government and still waiting. These people should be taken care of first. And I think that may be in terms of medication as well. Medication is not included in these free GP cards. It's just the visit and you would still have to pay for any medication you were prescribed. But why has all this taken place since COVID asked this listener? People are not stupid. There's something going on behind the scenes. This doctor is talking beside himself. It is humanly impossible to see your GPs today or any day. Let's be straight and honest here. And last one, just before we take a break for that news and the obituary notices, is this really going to be of benefit to the public? It's impossible to get an appointment at the moment. This is only going to make the situation worse. A lot of people are not really very confident about it. They're not welcoming of it. But we want those views as well, by the way. 08, 660, 25,000. Is this a good news for you? Or give us a call on 07491, 25,000 back shortly. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter County Credit Union. Digital loans now available. 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John, can you get off my lap? The Lennon Festival Remelton from the 6th to the 10th of July. Pre-Festival events continued this evening with children's crab fishing at 6 p.m. at the Quay, followed by Raft Race and Fun Kayak event at 7. Then it's the Oriental Eye Display at 8. For all the information on this year's lineup, check out Lennon Festival Remelton on Facebook. Lie on air online and on the Highland Radio app. This is Highland Radio News. Good morning, it's 10 o'clock. Donald Kavanagh at the news desk. Ryan Tauberty and his agent, Noel Kelly, have offered to appear before the Orocos Media Committee next week in a letter to the committee chair through solicitors. Mr Tauberty and Mr Kelly say they have important information to assist the committee in its work. With more, here's Sean Defoe. In a letter, both Ryan Tauberty and Noel Kelly say they wish to fully cooperate and assist with the media committee's investigations and believe they have important information that will assist the committee in its examination of these issues relating to Ryan Tauberty's pay and the use of barter accounts at the broadcaster. Both Mr Tauberty and Mr Kelly request to meet the committee at a suitable time next week and say they would welcome the opportunity to set out their position on the matters and submit themselves to appropriate questioning. They also said they would prepare a booklet of relevant documents which can be shared with the committee in advance of the attendance and that they've written to the public accounts committee to also make the same offer. A Sinn Fein motion calling on the government to reinstate 50-50 funding for the A5 passed in the DAW last night with all party support. The motion was not opposed by the government. Welcoming the government's approach, Donny Gull, Deputy Minister MacLachlan stressed the importance of the road upgrade and said the government must now follow through on what's been decided. I'm pleased that the government has supported this motion tonight because it means that the commitment that was made those years ago for a 50-50 funding of this road is now back on the table again. That's what this motion means tonight and that's an important message when we get these planning issues finally resolved and it's thanks to the communities who've rose up in their own and they're backed by all the communities in the counties around them 100%. Deputy MacLachlan also told the DAW that the 10T project in Donny Gull which will link up with the A5 is vitally important and the momentum which has gathered around it must be maintained. Junior Minister Jack Chambers responded the government will meet its commitments but stressed final decisions and figures cannot be discussed until ongoing statutory processes in the north are complete and work on the A5 project can finally start. On the issue of the 10T he agreed that important work is being done and pledged the government will continue to support it. Donny Gull County Council has been developing a significant program of strategic road improvement projects. This program has benefited from SEF funding from the European Commission with co-funding being provided through the Department of Transport. The program will see improvements around Bally Buffet, Letter Kenny to Manor Cunningham and importantly Manor Cunningham to Lifford which of course links in directly with the A5 and I expect to see these projects progress to planning by the end of the year which will be very welcome and I think a significant step forward for all of the communities involved. Three men are due in court in Belfast later today charged in connection with the attempted murder of a senior PSNI officer in Tyrone. The 45, 47 and 58 year olds were detained yesterday. They faced charges of preparatory acts of terrorism in relation to the gun attack on Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell outside OMA in February. Two of the men also faced charges of possession of articles for use in terrorism and providing property for the purposes of terrorism. A burst water main may cause supply disruptions to Muslak-Rosa-Penna downings and surrounding areas today. Iske Aaron expects the work to last until three o'clock this afternoon with householders and businesses being advised to allow another two or three hours after that to allow their supplies return to normal. And 90% of people don't know if they live in an area where radon gas could be seeping into their homes. The colourless, odorless gas is linked to lung and other forms of cancer. A new ESRI study shows 72% of people would test for radon if they knew there was a risk in their area. A new map has been designed to help people assess the risks. With a number of high-risk areas in Donegal, the map can be searched to aircode level. ESRI researcher Dr Shane Timmons says they hope this will encourage people to act and to search for their own homes risk. People told us that they didn't like maps that use statistics. For example, people disliked maps that said one in five homes in this area are at risk compared to just being told that a certain area is high risk for radon. Later on in the study, people who saw those statistics were actually more willing to say they would test their home. Sometimes information that makes us a bit uncomfortable can be exactly what we need to get us to take action on something. And you'll find a direct link to that map on our website, highlandradio.com. That's Highland Radio News. We're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock. Good morning. The obituary notices for this Wednesday morning, the 5th of July. The death has occurred of John McElhill, 17 Speerhome Road, Colleter Castle Derg, reposing at the family home from 12 noon today. Funeral from there on Friday morning at half past 10 for Requiem Mass at 11 o'clock in St. Patrick's Church, Ahearn, followed by interment in the adjoining churchyard. Family flowers only please donations in lieu of desired to Marie Curie Cancer Care, care of any family member. Family time please from 10 p.m. to 12 noon and on the morning of the funeral. The death has taken place of Liam Matthew Kelly, Dublin, New Hampshire, USA, formerly of 82 lower Main Street, Letter, Kenny. Visitation will take place on Friday morning from 10 to 11 at Divine Mercy Parish, 12 Church Street, Peterborough, New Hampshire. Massive Christian burial will be celebrated at 11. A private burial will take place at a later time. Donations in lieu of flowers please to the John J. Burns Library at Boston College or the Missionary Society of St. Columbine. The death has occurred of Michael van Dessel, fawn formerly of Dondog County, Louth. Family flowers only please house private. Michael will be waked in McLaughlin and McLaughlin funeral directors, Bon Kranagh, today from half past 11 to half past one and again from five until seven. A mass to celebrate Michael's life will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in St. Mary's Oratory, Bon Kranagh. The death has taken place of John Brennan, Lenan, Orris, Clonmany. His remains are reposing at his home. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to St. Michael's Church Orris for Requiem Mass at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only please donations in lieu of desired to RNLI, Care of Annie family member, or Comiskey funeral directors. The house is private please. Funeral mass can be viewed live on church services.tv. The death has occurred of Marlon Patton, Ney Sweeney, Kiltown, Killy Gordon. Her remains are reposing at her late residence. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at 20 past 10 for Requiem Mass in St. Patrick's Church, Crossroads, Killy Gordon at 11 interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard. The Requiem Mass will be streamed live on the St. Patrick's Church Crossroads, Killy Gordon YouTube channel. Donations in lieu of flowers if desired to the Donegal Hospice letter Kenny either directly or Care of Annie family member. Family time please from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow. The death has taken place of Joe Mullen, 15 Crohan View, Strabam, reposing at his home from 2 o'clock this afternoon. Funeral from there on Friday morning at 25 past 9 for Requiem Mass in St. Mary's Church, Melmont at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers please to the Foil Hospice, Care of Quigley funeral directors, Strabam. Family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. The Requiem Mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam. The death has taken place of Father Carlos Centra, the shelling Church Bray Fawn, former parish priest of St. Gregory, Barbarigo, Winford, Archdiocese of Glasgow. His remains are reposing at his late residence. Removal tomorrow Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock going to St. Mary's Church Cock Hill arriving for reception prayers at 3. Requiem Mass on Friday morning at 11 followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Family time please from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. Family flowers only please, donations in lieu of desired to Bunkranna Community Hospital and Nazareth House Fawn, Care of any family member or Murphy funeral directors. Father Centra's Requiem Mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv. The death has occurred of Tessie Dolan, name a Q, 23, Trinamungan Road, Ahiaran, reposing at the family home. Finable from there this morning at half past 10 for Requiem Mass at 11 o'clock in St. Patrick's Church, Ahiaran, interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. Family flowers only please, donations in lieu of desired toward 32 of McGovern Hospital, Care of any family member. And the death has occurred of Cecil Greer Hillcrest Remelton, reposing at his late residence. Funeral service in Remelton Presbyterian Church at 2 o'clock this afternoon followed by interment in bank cemetery. Family flowers only please, donations in lieu of desired to the Donegal Hospice, Care of any family member. For more details, including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals, please go to HighlandRadio.com. And a very good morning to John, Paul, Bernie, Siobhan, Annie, Charlie, Charlene, Audrey amongst the many of you watching the show live already this year on top of our fantastic Royal Radio listenership. We have had over 4 million live minutes viewed live minutes that doesn't include people watching back or what have you 4 million live minutes viewed already this year so far of the program. We really do appreciate that support by the way. It's a different way for people to interact with the show. As I say, we are a radio show and a radio station, but more and more of you are choosing to watch the program if it suits you. On your big screen using Highland Radio's YouTube channel, Highland Radio Ireland, you can cast it up. No, you don't need to cast it up those days. You can watch it on your smart TV or on your Firestick. We're on YouTube as I mentioned just now and Facebook. All right, so great for so many of you to be engaging with us that way as well. Really appreciate it. Right, back to comments here. Read Bunkrana Roadworks. They're flat out refusing to let anyone through yet the waterworks men are coming and going as they please the road as possible but not to residents apparently. Might be a health and safety issue there too though. Really stringent stuff in that regard. Now I don't know, I'm just saying possibly. We have an ongoing issue getting past the receptionist at our GP. Every time she answers, it's almost a week later before we get an appointment. Another good morning, Greg. I don't know what my GP is doing right, but I'm very grateful for the brilliant service given by doctors Walsh and Noonan in Milford. Thank you. And as I say, and I try and say to be fair, it really does seem to depend on where you are. Some people very, very content with the service they're getting with their GPs, others for quite some time now struggling even just to get the phone answered or an appointment. It's not across the board. It does vary a little bit. As I say, with my local GP, a very positive experience in two GPs that I've had access for different reasons. There are a lot of people suffering with mental and physical illnesses. They take the courage to make an appointment and can't get one, then they lose hope. It's very disheartening. I can kind of a wee bit relate to that. I know exactly where you're coming from and I think it's a really good point as well. Another caller says, a lot of this free healthcare for children would need to be means tested. People that can't afford this already would need to be a priority. Well, I think it's kind of the case whereby you don't sort of distinguish for children's care. I think it has to be universal, doesn't it? Because you know as soon as you have cut-offs and there's going to be a whole group of people that should qualify but can't qualify. More people need to be aware that the pandemic is part of a bigger global billionaire plan. That's a view some people hold. Why are people waiting so long for an MRI? I don't know the answer. Anyone with an insight, get in touch. My wife is off her feet since the start of October 2022. Her GP wasn't the worst but the hospital was an absolute disaster. We ended up going to the ED embalment hospital and it's still ongoing. Some people make those decisions. Good morning, Greg. What's wrong is we have doctors that only know how to treat and prescribe drugs. They aren't trained in prevention, which they should be. It's all about money. I asked Dr. Macaulay how much he has made from COVID and is still making to this day. Good morning, Greg. Is there anything to be said for another check for health staff? Dr. Macaulay says people who can't talk English isn't a big problem. Of course it is. Some doctors in Letter of Kenya aren't from Ireland, Greg, and they don't have great English. Why are we subjected to this? I mean, that's, it's literally a case of, I mean, I can't talk to that. That's your experience. Sadly, it's another example of blame shifting in Ireland. GPs blaming hospitals, hospitals blaming GPs. It's madness that receptionists are acting as triage nurses. I get you, I don't think it's a blame thing between GPs and hospitals but for some reason in this country, we don't avail of the fantastic network of pharmacists. For an example, I see in Britain, they're changing some rules and regulations that give pharmacists some bigger say in helping people. They could deal with an awful lot of issues that we often end up at the GP with. You know, things like urinary tract infections, styes, you know, stuff that, not styes, that's a terrible example, but you know what I mean, that kind of stuff, stuff that you could get sorted at your pharmacist, but they don't. So we have to go to the GP, but the GP can't see us. So we have to go to the hospital. I don't think it's blaming each other. We just need a plan that organises all of our services to maximise the delivery for the patient. I would love if a group of us got together and said, right, we think it's easy to fix, implement our plans, and then we'd find out if it's easy to fix or maybe it's more complex than we realise. Morning, Greg. In relation to defective concrete, the cost of an average home in Donegal is reported at around 250,000. So surely 420,000 should think it would be enough to replace any size of house. Labour costs are going through the roof as a result of defective concrete. It's not all to do with the price of materials. I mean, I think the average house is less than 250,000. I think you've been generous in that regard. I think it might be around about 190,000 or something along those lines, 185,000. But 420,000, people aren't given 420,000 in total. Go and build that house for that. The actual grant amount is irrelevant. It's really the square footage that people are awarded a value on. So it's a certain amount per square meterage. So it's a certain amount up to a point. And then we've this sliding scale is back. The sliding scale is back. So then after you get to a certain size, you get less per square meter. So it's not like 420 is given to people and says, there you are, go and build your house. No, you have to jump through a million hoops to get it, but it's per square meter. Okay, so you can chew into that 420 very, very quickly. And I think that's just something that is a bit of a myth out there that it's so 420 will build your house. It's not like that. The only people really that will get 420 of those with bigger houses, much bigger houses, you know, and as I say, the square meterage cost is the big one, not necessarily the total grant that is available. I call it says if they rewet peatland, it will only grow rushes six foot high. Maybe that's what they want. Right. Let me see. Is there any particular reason for the wall to wall advertising for the national lottery in recent weeks? Every ad break and RTE radio and TV features the ad. We have them here as well, of course. Last week, the news headlines reported on the thousands of people with gambling addiction in Ireland. It's time advertising for gambling and alcohol were banned just like what was done with tobacco. I'd like to know how much the lotto budget is spent on advertising and how it compares with its prize payouts. Probably not hard to find that out. I'll try. If I remember, check that for you in the break. I try and lotto and bingo. And I mean the online bingo in with gambling. I'm not often taken on on it. Like I do think it is. I think it's part of the same situation, but people seem to make that separation. I mean, we spent billions on the lotto in this country and on spent. So if you don't claim your prize, they use that money for advertising as well. So say, for instance, 400,000 euro goes unclaimed. It's very likely that could end up being spent on advertising. The helicopter lift is going ahead today on Errigal. Remember, we talked about this last week or the week before. It's for three days. So we've been asked to remind people for the next three days not to climb the mountain, if that's okay. So the helicopter is very likely to be so the helicopter if the what they're doing is is they're doing work that will help will help people walk up and down Errigal, but also will reduce damage to the mountain. I've got my hands in the air all the time. I don't know why, but anyway, so that's happening today, tomorrow in the day after. So you're being asked, please not to climb the mountain over the next few days to facilitate that work. Another really busy day on the comments line. Thank you so very much for all of you that are that all of you that are messaging in thanks very much again for all the messages we received yesterday. And personally for me and I do appreciate as well a few quite a few people I hold in very high regard who are journalists who have been posting or stating things in my support if you know what I mean, I'm not going to get into it now at this point on this program. But I do I do appreciate it. It's all noted and it's very comforting. Okay, let's take a break for the bingo numbers. We'll be back with much more on the night till noon show after these. It's time for NCBI bingo on Highland Radio. It's Wednesday, July 5th. You're playing on a blue coloured sheet. The reference number is S14. It's game number 27. The numbers are the number 3, 32, 26, 86, 72, 40, 60, 29, 43, and 87. Phone your claim to 9104833 before 8pm tonight. Leave in your name, contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book. Get all your NCBI radio bingo information at HighlandRadio.com. Book your wedding suits before August 31st and get a whopping 20% off. Don't stand still. Evolve. 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Good to see you again. Good morning, Greg. How are you this morning? I am good. I mean this is really quite remarkable regardless of the sample poll which is huge, where it is, what it is, whatever it might be. 25% of people believe it's justified for a man to beat his wife. I mean where are we at when that many people harbor that notion? I know, I know it's really shocking. I mean there's been some shocking statistics really over the past couple of weeks. That was really, that was very hard to hear. The same survey said that nine out of 10 people across the UN have a bias against women. So that's also shocking. And then we heard the European survey as well that also heard that four out of 10 people think that a woman's place is in the home. And that's, yes, all of those statistics are very worrying, aren't they? They are, and I think what it tells us, because as I say this is quite a big survey, it tells us then there's two things going on. There is the public face of attitude and then there's a reality. So in other words what people are prepared to say publicly or how they might pretend to treat someone or be seen to be treating someone and really what they might think and how that might affect women under the surface so to speak. I mean there's two realities going on here then. There is and there was another statistic as well which helps us understand a bit more. And that was that 85% of women leave full-time employment three years after they have their first child. So that would seem to indicate that as you say, we say all the right things, right? But what actually happens in reality is that women, whether they choose to or not, they leave work very quickly after having their first child in a full-time capacity. I can imagine or I would guess that this, it covers a lot of countries that it might vary from country to country. So in other words... The UN won. Yeah, the UN won. If you go into the data on that. A big pardon Larissa, go on. This is a slight delay. Go ahead. If you go into the data on the UN report Greg, it's very, very widely dispersed across countries and it breaks it down by country and some countries are really biased in one direction and others not so much. But I mean without doubt the average across the board still comes out as 9 out of 10 show a bias towards women. And wherever the women are living, there's still women. And there's a sisterhood there of course. And also generally everyone in the population should take note of this. They should. And I mean for us in Ireland, it still happens. So it might not be that dramatic. It might not be a 9 out of 10 or it might not be a quarter of people think it's okay to beat your wife. We might not see those types of statistics. But the fact that women still don't feel that they have a choice whether they can remain in the workplace if should they wish to do so. Because of other factors like childcare, for example, that you and I touched on the last time we spoke, right? It's not as women don't have the choice that we would like them to have. And I think us as a society, we have to address that. And still problems persist in terms of women's place in the workforce and in terms of pay gaps and what have you. I mean, some inroads in our country are being made. But the gap is still there. Women stop working effectively much earlier in the year when men for the most part work right up to the end of the year if you were to view it like that. Stop an income. Stop working. Stop receiving an income. Go ahead. Stop receiving income. And we are making very slow progress. I mean, we've seen the acts that are this week, the Miscellaneous Work Act, I think it's called, where women have an extra hour breastfeeding time allowed now up with their child is two. And people, men and women can take a little bit of extra time to care for dependents or people who live with them, I think it is. So that's all very positive. But we still have a long way to go. And it's the issue seems to be in the workplace. So we don't really have a problem in education. There are some challenges, but we've done a lot of work there. We've done a lot of work with helping women start businesses. There's a lot of grants and support there to help women start businesses. It seems to be in the workplace or when businesses are established, we have challenges. And it's around maternity leave, it's around childcare, it's around women feeling they have to take time away from their careers in order to care for either dependents or for their children. And I think the version of care continues to fall on women and that affects their progress in the workplace. Yeah, and you know, as I say, hopefully we continue to make progress here. But if in certain countries in certain parts of the world, things are going backwards for women, rights they once had have been removed. And in some countries, it is so far biased against women, you wonder, is there any, is there any way to actually reverse that because it's, it can be tied in with religion or cultural practices or what have you, do you know what I mean for in some countries, you just wonder what what the hope is the future for women who want to live lives beyond what they're allowed to as it stands. Well, we've seen in that particular report, there has been, we've not gone backwards, compared to I think the equivalent report of the similar report in 2017, we have gone backwards. And it seems to be relating to the pandemic and the challenges after the pandemic around some countries that are performing economically quite poorly. We've obviously had inflation and as and great aspects like that that had does seem to have affected progress. What you're referring to there is countries like like Afghanistan, even countries like the US where we've seen a reversal of abortion rights for women. So that's not that's not a good thing. That's not a good thing for us in terms of progress. And it does it does concern us in terms of the future and what direction we're going in absolutely. Yeah, okay. And you know, things can we think that, you know, this is the way it is here and it's not here, it's in other countries. But we've seen in terms of politics and attitudes, very quickly, things can change in a country even if you can imagine that they never could. Well, exactly. And to look at it on the positive like Greg, we do we do have changes coming in Ireland. I think it's in September, where 40% of all candidates going forward for elections have to be female. So that's very positive. And we are going into another budget cycle now and we are the country is performing very well and there's excess money as we all know. And really what I'd like to, I suppose talk about is the possibility of investing that excess money into childcare. And if we look at countries that do this really well, like look at Iceland, for example, they invest six times more than what we do in their child care and increase school childcare. And we don't we're not really where we need to be. And we see that in the lack of available childcare places. I'm sure there's people listen to this right now, who would love to work but can't work because they can't find childcare. And that's affecting the economy and it's affecting our progress as a society. But it's no brainer to spend money in relation to that, though, because firstly, you have a sector where people are staying within or seeing it as a good employment opportunity. And secondly, you've got more people who want to work able to work, contributing through their taxes and what have you and not relying on state supports where that might be applicable. I mean, it's a no brainer to throw cash at childcare. You know, you should have a situation where someone who's pregnant feels that they have to try and find a childcare place for a child many years in advance so they can get back on with their careers. And that's the reality in letter Kenny for some. Exactly. I mean, and the same reason why there's a no brainer that we invest in primary school education and the second school education. It's the exact same argument as preschool education and as preschool childcare to invest in the future of our country. And that's really what we're talking about here. And when there's an excess money in the budget, why don't we use it for our future and invest in in that future? Yeah, for sure, especially considering it's those who are going to be stuck with all of our debt. Exactly. Give them a chance. All right. Okay. It's it's a again. It seems like a no brainer. Larissa and it fails me as to why we aren't doing something that's perfectly logical. Thanks for your input on on both important issues, all of those issues. That's Larissa Feeney, president of Donegal Women in Business across the UN 25% of people believe it's okay or justified for a man to beat his wife, which is that's not specific to Ireland, but that's an average across all of those UN countries, including including this or countries close to us. Right. Okay. Hi, Caroline. Our road is closed today. We've got a no notice of this at all. Residents have to do a 26 mile detour. The company that's doing these road works are very diff my family was 30 minutes late for work. Okay. What part of the world is that in? This notice was in a newspaper. If there's a medical emergency, what do we do? There's no issue for the milkman and carers. This is all the same text. There is no issue for the milkman or carers to get through. So I can't understand why we can't get through. My sister is a nurse and needs to get through. All this is ridiculous to say. I don't quite know where this is. So if you want to get back in touch with us and just give us an indication there. Right. Okay. Just a quick announcement actually before we get to a break and bring our next guest in. It's a message from the Northwest Donegal Vintage Club. The Don Fannahy Vintage Rally takes place this coming Saturday and Sunday. Northwest Donegal Vintage Show and Rally. Vintage cars, tractor, stationary engines, farm machinery and implements, craft displays, children's fairground, novelty items, stools and brick or brick for all the family, microlight display, weather permitting. It's all on Sunday afternoon in Don Fannahy. So it sounds like a nice way to visit. I might try and see if I can get to show my face there myself. Sounds really good. Okay. Back with our next guest shortly. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. 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So, Elaine is organizing a coffee morning in aid of the Pediatrics Ward in Letter Kenney University Hospital. It's taking place tomorrow, the 6th of July in the vestry at St. Connell's in Letter Kenney between 10am and 12 noon. And we'll remind you of that as we work through the interview right here. Elaine, tell us why this is such an important cause for you that you've decided to organize this event. It's based off your experience with your daughter Kira, isn't it? Yeah, little Clara. Clara, a bit of pardon. Yeah, our daughter Clara. I do need class. She's turned one there in April, but back in February and most of March, she spent quite a bit of time in both the Peds Ward and Cromland. And we just wanted to do something to express our gratitude for the care she received there. And just I feel like there's so much negativity sometimes around working health care myself. And it's just nice to recognize the positives as well and to give back to the community and to the local hospital. Yeah, for sure. Clara initially had chicken pox, is that correct? Yeah, so Clara's two older siblings and they both got chicken pox and then about two weeks later Clara got it. And at the start she was fine, you know, temperature is not overly sick with it for about two days, Greg. And then on the Sunday morning, I noticed that a few of her little sores were very inflamed, looking prickly on her chin. So I rang Naidok and they sent me straight into E.D. and I suppose little did we know that stage that she would be off to Cromland the next day. So yeah, it was just the what the kind of told us when we asked for a debrief after we'd had time to collect her thoughts that the chicken pox left her skin very open and vulnerable. So something to be aware of I suppose. And then it got infected with the Strepe bacteria. Strepe is something that can cause, you know, tonsillitis in particular minor infections. But in Clara's case, it actually became invasive. So she had sepsimia with the Strepe. And that's when it's dangerous, can be potentially life threatening if it's not treated in time. Right. So a decision was made then to transfer Clara to Cromland. Yeah. So the staff and Naidok and they were fantastic. They were just so diligent. And she was there for maybe 36 hours or something. And then she spent a week in Cromland. And they just had a few minor major concerns as opposed about her. One was that she would develop abscesses, you know, in her soft tissues. Or another one was that the Strepe would continue on to infect her connective tissue or something like that, you know, and in that case, then she would have needed quite extensive surgery. And they recognized they didn't probably have the facilities in Etter Kenny for that. Yeah. And then after she came back from Cromland, She was a week in Cromland. She was a week in Cromland. And then she was in and out to the pediatric day ward after that for a week. And then she actually got quite a nasty rotavirus like vomiting bugs. And she was back and then peeds again for another week. The week don't put it. I mean, I feel sorry for you and all, but I mean, she put a couple of weeks in, didn't she? She did. She did have a tough few weeks. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And talk to me then about the level of care that Clara received, particularly in Leonard County University Hospital, because it's a local facility that sort of has brought to this point now that you want to help support them. Because obviously, it touched you and the family in general. Yeah. I just found that every member of staff I encountered from we walked on the doors of ED and the peeds ward in particular were just so conscientious with Clara's care. They communicated everything to us very well, you know, in our terms. And they, and everyone's felt that they didn't really genuinely care about Clara and Clara care about us. And yeah, it was just amazed at everyone that I encountered really, you know, from nursing staff to the clinical nurse managers, the doctors, everyone. Yeah. I had a similar experience. It's hard to describe. After Hudson was born, he ended up under their care. And it's not like a patient, it's not like a patient nurse or doctor relationship, is it? It's almost like they're parenting with you in a way. It's hard to quite describe it, but it's incredibly personal and caring and understanding. Yeah. And I suppose I just like to mention quickly as well. I won't mention her name in case she doesn't want me to on air, but there was a particular nurse that travelled with me in the ambulance to Cromland. And, you know, I'll never forget her. I'll never forget her face or her voice. And, you know, I think I suppose they're just people going in doing their jobs and giving their best every day, but they maybe don't realize the impact they have on us as parents, do you know? And that's just, yeah, it really touched us. Yeah, the most stressful situation. It takes a while to get over. You don't really get over it straight away to get these post-traumatic, but you know what I mean? It's still, you get that gunk every now and again when you think of what you went through. And how long goes this now? That was most a march this year. Wow, OK. So Clara's over a year now. Yeah, she was one in April. How's she getting on? She's really good now. She's started walking there recently. And she's perfect, yeah. What's with these girls? She's probably talking. She's got, yeah. She's a small bit of scar tissue kind of around her neck that they said might take a few months to resolve. Yeah, but she's young then. Yeah, and it's not really visible, but I mean, if that's all she came out with, we're lucky. So. All right, OK. So all of this has brought you to a sense that you wanted to give something back or do something. And as you say with your background, you have an understanding of working in this area. So you thought a coffee morning was the right way to go about it? Yeah, we kind of toured with a few ideas. We have a GoFundMe link for people who can't make it. And then we just thought a coffee morning was nice to get people together, because we probably didn't have that for so long with Covid. So and we decided on the vestry just for the proximity to the hospital. And it's also open to anyone like public as well. And I know that it has access to the town park too. So we're hoping that, you know, it's a good choice of venue. Yeah, exactly. So it's between 10am and 12 noon tomorrow. And it's a coffee morning. Is it just coffee? No, there are lots there. And we have a leading question. Yeah, yeah. We have a raffle as well of quite a few big hampers and lots of very generous prizes from local businesses. It's a lot to mention. But and then we have, yeah, the raffle is on. And then we have baked goods as well. I'll bring it to her. So you can have a scone and a coffee. Yeah. And we've got some stuff. Do you know sponsor as well in that department? Like from local bakery. So yeah. So if you can buy and take home with you. Yeah, yeah. Okay, lovely. All right. Okay, Elaine. I'm delighted to hear that Clara is in good form running around the place now. As I say, even if nothing else, this has given us an opportunity to recognize the great work of the staff down at Leta Kenney University Hospital. Because as you say, you know, the hospital does come in for criticism sometimes, but it's very, very, very rarely the staff. And this program, this station and the public generally stand with the staff. It's just the scenario sometimes that they're working within. Yeah, exactly. And we share their frustrations and back them up 100%. Okay. So if you want to support Leta Kenney Pediatric Ward, have a nice cup of coffee. There's great raffles as well. Thanks to the generosity of local businesses. There's baked goods. And then you can head out and have a walk in the park if you want. It's a coffee morning in the vestry at St. Connell's. As I say, Thursday tomorrow between 10am and 12 noon. Elaine, unless there's anything else you want to add? No, that's it. All right, brilliant stuff. Thank you. I hope you have a huge turnout tomorrow over the course of the couple of hours. That's Elaine Doherty there. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Leta Kenney Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkenneycu.ie or in office today. Then save again at the till with our 10-off 50 grocery vouchers. Done stores. Always better value. Terms and conditions apply, voucher can be used on ex-grossy shop of 50 euro or more. Do you have what it takes to make it in radio? Ever dreamed of making it as a presenter on your favorite station? 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They're in the first group that can prescribe in the UK. Well, there you go. Why aren't we doing that? Another, it was RGP who advised my wife to go to ED in Beaumont Hospital. Greg, she said nothing was going to be done in Latter-Kennie University Hospital, which is not a fantastic review of services from that GP. A caller says, I find trying to get an appointment at the dentist equally as difficult. I called for a clean and check-up, and the earliest appointment they had was for three months time. I explained I felt I had a bit of a toothache coming on, but nothing. It was a Monday, so I called a dentist in Derry and got an appointment for that Thursday. Right, okay. We are joined on the programme now by Joe Thomas. Good morning to you, Joe. How are you getting on? Good, Greg. Good morning. It's good to have you with us. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, there's a slight delay on the line, Joe. Right, talk to us about your latest project, Joe, that you're working on. Oh, that you have worked on? Well, the project title of the book is actually Kjoll and Greg, which means music from the rock. It's a tradition Kjoll Horry, which is the music tradition of Tory Island. And basically it was an idea I had a long time ago, which started to firm up during Covid. And when Covid passed by a year ago, I started to write the book, gather the information, and geometrically it's an A4 book of 264 pages, stuffed full of the music that has been played, the traditional music that has been played on Tory for the last 45, 50 years. And where was your source material, Joe? Because, you know, it's an amazing archive of musical history spanning, you know, multiple decades. So where were you able to gather all this information and the records? Sure, there was a number of sources. I can list them, they're listed at the beginning of the book. But fundamentally, I had obviously the internet and YouTube and videos that people had put up over the years since the internet started. I had lots of written documentation. I had a good number of audio recordings, which had been done by various different people over the years. And the main piece was a video taken in 1988, actually, and 1990, of two, three hour long callies on Tory Island, where the main players in those days played their music. And then I also had written sources like ABC and musical transcripts, my own catalogue in my own head. And of course, the core of the book was where musicians from Tory would come to my kitchen throughout the seven or eight months, sit in the kitchen, play their tunes, I would record the tunes and spend endless hours transcribing the music from the recordings by ear onto musical transcripts. I mean, that in and of itself is just a huge undertaking. Joe, did you realise, did you go into this with your eyes wide open? Did you truly sort of fully comprehend and advance the scale of what you were taking on in terms of, even just as you mentioned there, transcribing the notes to paper by ear, a huge piece of work? Well, therein, if you ask any writer I'm guessing, did they realise what they were taking on? I'd say the majority of them would say no, they didn't. I started with the idea that I knew I was aware of 100 tunes. So I had some idea of the magnitude of it. But it ended up 200 tunes. And of course, the approach to unfolded in front of me as I started, what I did was I got the very first tune and I said, right, I'm going to pretend this is a page of the book and I am going to document this tune. And so I was able, I'm an engineer, so I like this idea of taking notes and timing things. And so fairly early on I had an idea of the magnitude of a per tune task involved. But the real issue as you're referring to was that I didn't realise how many tunes there were. So actually in February of this year, I could a hard stop on the tunes. So I had collected 200 at that point and I finished the process of taking each tune. The process in itself was quite interesting because I started to write the book in English and I was then approached by the Irish language planning officer on Tory and the core coming officer and they said, look, why don't we make it an Irish book? And I said, well, that sounds fantastic. So on top of the music aspect, there was a bilingual aspect to it. So going back to the page thing, what I did was I got a tune. I transcribed it into classical score. I then wrote out what's known as ABC and musicians of Irish music will know what ABC is. It's a much simpler version of the music score and how you might learn it. And then of course each little tune, not all but about 70% of the tunes had a story on Tory. So the page became the title of the tune in Irish. It's title as it was known in English. The musical score, the ABC and then a little narrative of the tune itself, things like why, how it came to Tory, how it might be played differently on Tory, why it might be played differently on Tory and why the key would be different on Tory as opposed to say a version of the tune in Connemara. So each page was a little project in itself. Yeah. And a story in itself. And the thing is, is like I can only imagine this has never been done before and who else would take on such a task? I mean it's going to be really popular of course but even if you never sold it but suddenly having this iCar archive, it's an incredibly important piece of work because it's enshrining in history for future generations. A very important part of our life and in a very important part of Harry, the music of Tory. Like in and of itself it's worth it in that regard. Do you get me? Yeah, you've hit the nail in the head actually because when people now ask me, is this a history book? What is it? It's actually both, it serves three purposes in my mind. It's a learning book because there is, there's a learning aspect to the tunes themselves. But it is a snapshot in time of the music that exists on Tory today that has come out of the last 50 years and before that. So the thing for me, the gratifying thing for me is that as I look at the book and it's finished, I say, look, this is a historic record but it's also a current record and it is going to be used as a tutor for anybody who's interested in the music of Tory. And that only dawned on me as I was doing it because a number of the people whose recordings I had have now passed away. Yes. Now, and the other thing is one of the musicians on your current said to me, geez, Joe, this is amazing because nobody's ever asked me to do this before. And it's about time someone did it. I came to Tory 20 years ago and I went looking for something like this and it didn't exist. So, yes, I've taken a snapshot in time of the music of Tory Iones. And then the stories that go along with them which gives a snapshot just beyond the actual music itself as well, I'm sure. The book is going to be launched on Sunday, the 16th of July at 2 p.m. And it's sort of grown into a summer long event, a weekly event through the summer. So, talk briefly about that, Joe. Yeah, there's a little thing which has now burst out of Tory this summer. And I think the COVID thing had put everything on the back foot for a while. But both the club, there are two outlets for music on Tory, the club and Club Holly and the Tory Iones Hotel. And with the help of the language planning officer who was very interested, Shannon McGay was very interested in developing music through the summer. The Tory hotel have a breakout Sunday. There's a music session every Sunday. The club has a Caleigh and the hotel has a Caleigh on a Saturday night. And there's an impromptu session in the club on a Friday night. So, this has already started. We had myriadine Mooney in a couple of weeks ago and that was brilliant. There was a singing circle in last Sunday. There's another group in this Sunday. And so, we have a summer programme in front of us. And of course, the Errigal Arts Festival starts on the 8th. And so, I thought, what a good idea, try and launch the book in that period. And so, the book will be launched on Sunday the 16th and will form part of the Errigal Arts thing. But it will also be a fundamental foundation for the traditional music that we'll carry on right through the summer. Finally, Joe, a couple of people texting in saying, it sounds like a gem of a book. Where can it be bought? Where can people put by a copy either on the island or on the... It might be easier on the island to identify. But on the mainland, hopefully you've got plenty of distributors, do you, in terms of... Well, I'll tell you what I did. There is a website. It's keolhorri.ie, keolhorri, c-e-o-l-t-h-o-r-a-i-dot-i-e. And the contact details for the book are on that. Lovely, Joe. Well done. Well done. And just one last point. One last point. The book is two-dimensional and currently developing the website, keolhorri.ie, which will give rise to the characters and the music of the book. Well done, Joe. Great to chat to you. Joe Thomas, the author of that book. Right, OK. Thanks for that. I want to say a big 6-0 to Geraldine McGuire down in Audra. Hi, Geraldine. Lots of love from PJ and Finola, wishing you a really happy birthday. Right, let's see what should we do. Just whilst we're on that, I want to mention a bake sale just to support little local events. Not little local events. It sounds demeaning. I don't mean it like that, but things that are being held in the local community. The Finn Valley Women FC are inviting you to come along and support their club with a bake sale or through a bake sale and it's coffee morning. It's on Saturday from 4 to 7pm at the Old Parish Centre. Coffee morning and bake sale then on Sunday the 9th of July after 9.30am and 11am mass in the New Parish Centre. Everybody is welcome. So it's just to give that a little mention and a wee bit of support. Is there anything else? No, right, OK. We'll be back with loads, but just not squeezing before 11. Stay right where you are. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie. Two gig, four fiber broadband from Virgin Media has landed in Donegal. Hear that, Ifa? Time to lose yourself in the latest Scandi crime series. I have no idea what's going on here. You should really put on the subtitles. Fair point. Whatever your genre, whatever way you play, Virgin Media is here. 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The Lennon Festival Remelton from the 6th to the 10th of July. Pre-Festival events continued this evening with Children's Crab Fishin' at 6pm at the Quay, followed by Raft Race and Fun Kayak Event at 7. Then it's the R&L Eye Display at 8. For all the information on this year's lineup, check out Lennon Festival Remelton on Facebook. Right, a caller says, hey Greg, I've got quotes for seven nights staying in Bandor and starting from 3,700 euro to 5,000 euro for a three-bedroom home. How can you expect people to come to Donegal for a holiday? That sounds pretty expensive, doesn't it indeed? The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. OK, it is 11 o'clock. It is time for a news update, and it's good morning now to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. Ryan Tuberty and his agent, Noel Kelly, have offered to appear before the Orocos Media Committee next week in a letter to the committee chaired through their solicitors. Mr Tuberty and Mr Kelly say they have important information with which they believe they can assist the committee in its work. They've made a similar offer to the Public Accounts Committee. As in vain motion, calling on the government to reinstate 50-50 funding for the A5 passed in the Dáil last night with all-party support, the motion wasn't opposed by the government. Welcoming the government's approach, Deputy Patrick McLaughlin highlighted the importance of the road upgrade from a safety point of view. He also stressed that momentum must be maintained around the TNT project in Donegal, which will link up with the A5. Police in Derry are investigating what's being treated as a sectarian hate crime in the city. Its after-reads were taken from the Diamond War Memorial in the city centre in the early hours of this morning. The memorial is dedicated to those who died while in military service during World War I. Three men are due in court and Belfast shortly charged in connection with the attempted murder of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell in Oma in February. The men aged 45, 47 and 58 were charged with preparatory acts of terrorism to face further charges of possession of articles for use in terrorism and providing property for the purposes of terrorism. 90% of people would test their homes for raid on gas if they knew there was a personal cancer risk. That's one of the key findings of a study out this morning from the ESRI and the Environmental Protection Agency. Raid on is a naturally occurring gas which can seep into homes from underground. It's undetectable because it has no colour or smell. A new map shows a number of high-risk areas in Donegal. And a number of areas around Downing's may experience water outages or shortages. Today, as a result of a burst of watermen, Ishke Erin say they are working on repairing the main. Those repair works should be finished by mid-afternoon, but it could be early evening before supplies return completely to normal. Whether the headlines back with news headlines again at 12 noon. All right, Donald, thank you very much indeed. Whether it's golfing, gardening, or going for a new personal best, at Neurofen, we know sometimes body pain can stop you in your tracks. Time for the power of new Neurofen long-lasting for body pain relief that lasts up to 12 hours day or night. So you keep doing what you're doing and we'll do the long-lasting body pain relief. Up to 12 hours pain relief refers to a 2 by 300 milligram capsule dose. Neurofen long-lasting 300 milligram pro-long release hard capsules contain ibuprofen for backache and muscular pain and period pain. Always read the label. All right, we've been speaking about medicine shortages. Most of this year it seems now. But diabetes patients may have to limit the use of insulin. They may take that decision themselves. This due to a shortage of vials of insulin. And let me just read what was said in one of the articles here. Some, as I say, are adjusting their diet by eating fewer carbs to make their insulin last longer. And this is according to some patients. Dee joins us on the program now. Dee, thanks for your time today. I appreciate it. Hi, Greg. How are you? Not too bad at all, Dee. So your son has type 1 diabetes. Is this shortage already affecting him and the family? Well, it first become apparent that we all know that there's a shortage of the highest insulin and that's used in many pumps within Ireland. And we were made aware of that. But it become apparent then recently that this has had a ripple effect on other insulins because patients from fires are being transferred to Novirapid, which is the predominantly used insulin for Ireland. So there's a lot of people in the community of type 1 parents that have said, has anybody having trouble getting their supply of insulin? And many people have come and said, yes, they have. So I myself then went to pick up my son's prescription. He's due to have three vials per month. They could only give us one. They couldn't tell us when we could get the others. Now, being type 1 diabetic, they need insulin 24 hours a day. It's not something they just take with food. They take it with food, but it's not just something they take with food. They need it 24 hours a day. And one vial a month is just not going to be enough. And my son's on a very little amount of insulin. So there'll be patients out there on a lot more. So what can you do with that? I don't know if you have a medical background or not, but I mean, how are you advised to use or are you advised how to use that amount of insulin compared to what normally would be required? Like, are you given any support or advice on that or do you have to make those calls yourself? Well, we have to make those calls ourselves. I mean, our pharmacists are at the end of their tether. They're putting the hairs out to be quite honest with you. My own pharmacist is absolutely brilliant. She has gone through, you know, the end of the earth just to see what she can do because she has a few patients that require insulin and we're all in the same boat. And obviously, the last thing we want to do is stop pearl insulin because it's going to cause somebody, some child to have no insulin. Now hopefully now have it sorted because what I found this week was that although they were aware there was a fire issue, they weren't aware that the NOVA rapid is being hit by this as well. So now that has been highlighted, hopefully now they'll real sort something out and stock will start coming back in again. Yeah, but I mean, hope is something to hold on to but it's certainty that you need because obviously you can tell us if someone doesn't get the insulin they require, it can have really devastating, including fatal consequences. But yeah, definitely. I mean, as I said, they need insulin 24-7. They have no pancreas, the pancreas are spelled. So they need insulin 24-7. If their insulin is short, then they have a risk of going to ketoacidosis which is life-threatening. So it is scary. There's fires, there's NOVA rapid and there's homolog which can be, you can use one or the other. But that takes precision and it takes a lot of specialized care because changing from one insulin to another, you can't just do it. It's something that you have to get used to because all insulins act differently. They have different speeds. They have different reactions to different foods. So it will have to be done over a period of time. It's not something that can be done straight away and be fine. It's something that needs to be watched and supervised. So, but the only thing is with that is if we start running low of NOVA rapid and then patients being moved to the third option, it's just going to have a vicious cycle and we're going to get to the point where we are going to be stuck. Have you been given any explanation as to the actual cause of this and what the long-term situation might be? All right, you might get assurances from the company that supplies will come in line by the end of month but how do we know that those might not be exhausted quite quickly and we'll be down the same road in four months or eight months or no one wants to live with this uncertainty over their heads. We don't know, honestly. We don't know. I mean, to be honest with you, there's some cases in the country that have no issue at all. Some parents have absolutely no issue at all getting what they need but there's some that are getting half of what they need and some getting very minimal amount of what they need. So what's happened, I don't know what's happening whether pharmacists know the situation and are stockpiling in certain areas which is creating an issue for other pharmacists. I really don't know because there are parents that are getting their supply but there's parents that are not. So I don't know what's going on in that circle of things but FIASP have said which is an over-nourished who make FIASP but this issue should be sorted by the end of the month. It's got absolutely nothing to do with the quality or anything wrong with the internet. It's a manufacturing issue, staffing issues but they can't get stock required up fast enough which is okay, they have warned us about that. We did have warnings about that but they haven't really foreseen the consequences that it's had on the other insulin because patients have been going from FIASP to Nova Rapid and now Nova Rapid supply is short. I hope it gets sorted soon Dee and I hope particularly that it's not just sorted for now that there's long-term security there because it's enough to be dealing with without that also. No, it is worrying. It's a worrying prospect that we're going to be finding ourselves with this issue. It is because we have no other we can't move to any other medication we have this and we need this to keep our children alive or tight ones themselves alive even some type 2s use insulin it's a situation that needs to be sorted and soon. All right Dee listen, thanks for that. Best wishes to everyone that's Dee there whose son has type 1 diabetes. If that affects you 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Now I said it at the end of the show yesterday and I just want to reiterate it as it relates to all of you who contacted the program while we were chatting to Father Sean Daherty still taking a wee bit of time to get used to that. 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Yes, well my son Gareth was 36 years old as you say he was six foot tall he was strong, healthy and full of life I had been away this was going back four years ago in fact his anniversary is tomorrow and I was away doing a walk a charity walk for hospice my son or my husband had died four years prior to this and I was away doing the charity walk came home to find that Gareth had died while watching TV as you can imagine the shock of it I immediately did CPR but really I knew that I was working on a dead body so I had to you just feel you have to do something after that well actually two days before that my daughter had given birth to her second baby so here we were going in one hand from the joyous having a new baby into the family and then my son's death two days later it was just you couldn't write it really and there was nothing Ellen there was nothing to indicate that this was to happen had he had any health issues in his young life as you mentioned he was a big strong lad and he wasn't exerting himself he was sitting watching TV I can't imagine what that must have been like for you I really can't that's not just words was there any indication that that he might have been at risk of sudden adult death well a few days before that he was a motorbike enthusiast he had been away with his friends to the Dutch TT he came home a few days before this telling me all of the joys that he had away with his friends a few days after he said to me he had pains in the stomach well I naturally thought he's picked up a bug while away in Holland and I had said to him please don't go near your sister with the new baby just drink plenty of water to flush your system so that's what he did he flush kept drinking water but who would ever connect no never pains in your stomach with heart you just wouldn't especially in a healthy 36 year old as well yeah for sure yeah he was very fit he had his own motorbike he knew he had to have a healthy diet he exercised he was just full of the joys of spring really and so after that I had never spoken to anyone or knew anyone that had died suddenly like this people sympathise with you but they really do not understand what it is like to lose your own child I had given birth to him I had nurtured him all of his life and suddenly he was gone yeah we're not equipped to even begin to process such a thing because it's not natural so however we've developed as humans over time how we have never been preconditioned to really be able to cope with such a difficult situation and as you say people try and say the right thing and have the best will in the world but was it really when you engaged with cry that they were able to help you through as much as they could through this incredibly difficult part of your life that continues to this day of course well the big thing about cry is the big word empathy no one knows until they experience it themselves what it feels like I was very fortunate when I rang Leanne on cry I was very fortunate that it was Leanne that answered the phone and she was able to put me in touch with other mothers actually who had lost their sons so I really knew that those ladies knew how my heart was breaking in two I was totally shattered by it I didn't know how really to cope with losing my only son so talking to these ladies they gave me terrific support I think the first call I probably cried the whole way through it but they knew exactly what I was going through and what a broken heart was like so empathy was so so important to me that I knew they understood exactly what I was going through so through that and through Leanne then you just gradually learned to cope with it but it was only through cry that helped me process my grief yeah and so engaging with the other moms it's not like I presume for a long time it's not to try and make you feel better it is to understand what you're going through to talk it through to let you grieve in a space that people understand it and let you at it and then when the time is right and it's going to be at a different time for everyone else you start to try and move forward with this grief and loss because you have to carry it with you forever so that presumably that engagement with these people and the organisation affords you the space and the time and the opportunity to do that as best as one can that's right that's right and no matter how long it has been since Gareth died I know that I can sit and I can cry in front of all these people because they know exactly and we all do that and you know after a year people think that you know you get over things but you really don't you really do not get over losing your child the way I look at it is it's you know grief can hit you all of a sudden something can trigger it off I can think think of it as an avalanche it just hits you you can't stop it it covers you you either you either go to bed or whatever as long as you you just learn to cope with that and then you just think well the snow will melt tomorrow's a new day so you start the new day you can go out through your door your front door there's a ginormous hole outside outside your door you can either fall into it or you can negotiate around it I prefer to negotiate around it and it's only through the help of cry and the volunteer work that they they do that has helped me do that you're a remarkable lady you truly are Eleanor because as well as you're dealing with the circumstances of someone's death can affect everything as well and that shock that shock of of discovering your beautiful son as well you know as I say that's a different experience everyone has different experiences you've mentioned Elaine Whelan there who's a family support program coordinator with cardiac risk in the young Ireland Elaine it's hard to add on top of what Eleanor has so eloquently and so fulsomely put across someone's experience but also how you know engaging with cry can help yeah and thank you Greg again for having myself and Eleanor on this morning you know even sitting here and listening to Eleanor and I've heard her story about Gareth and her loss so many times but I remember that first day and that first call Eleanor phoned and I just want to say firstly before I kind of get into the work we do I'm so proud of Eleanor honest to God in the journey she has come in the last two years and getting to know her and we have 28 wonderful volunteers around the 32 counties of Ireland and predominantly moms who have lost sons and daughters but also partners husbands wives siblings and close friends of somebody that who has lost their life in this way but Eleanor speaks for many of those volunteers and many of the families here this morning and so just I want to say Eleanor thank you so much for being that voice of cry and coming on this morning yet again and I know there's you know even if we if one person and one mom and one family here's Eleanor this morning I think that's what we're doing a good job so I just wanted to say that first of all if one person gets hope from it because that is I can just imagine there are people listening who are are still locked in the earliest you know in the initial grief and might been for many many years but haven't maybe had the opportunity to go through a process to navigate life like Eleanor so beautifully pot that's it and you know many people as Eleanor said grief is not tidy grief is you know it's like an avalanche it can hit you you know in different forms in different days you know depending on the day how you're feeling on that day and I suppose just just maybe just to give you some background back in 2002 when our wonderful charity cry was set up it was set up by Michael and Mary Green after the death of their 15 year old son Peter back in 1996 in Dublin and at that time Michael and Mary obviously like Eleanor their world was torn upside down and inside out and after the sudden cardiac death of Peter and at that time in Ireland you know that there was this I suppose anxiety around them they had other children you know is are my other children okay could they possibly have this cardiac illness where do we go what do we do and there was very little in Ireland there was very little awareness of young people dying men and women young men and young women dying so at that time they went about their business and they went to see a cardiologist privately and again that cardiologist at the time you know heard what they were saying that there isn't support for families so Dr David Mukahi at the time in Dublin ended up seeing people like Michael and Mary Green and then seeing their other children you know so for one appointment he might be seeing five members of a family in front of him because of this anxiety around but Peter has died suddenly with sudden cardiac death our other children are we at risk and so I suppose that's that's really the history of it that's where cry was founded and now over years of Michael and Mary and a wonderful team and our CEO Lucia Epps and a wonderful team of volunteers that has been built on and now we have a state-of-the-art cry screening centre a C or YP centre in Tallah opposite the gates of Tallah hospital and that is suppose is headed by Dr Deirdre Ward and her clinical team in partnership with Tallah University Hospital and the HSE so what cry the charity what Ellen and I do and Lucia we offer access to families who have been affected by sudden cardiac death which is a genetic or hereditary condition and we offer free access all of our services are free and into Dr. Deirdre Ward and her clinical team and these are for families and loved ones who are deemed that they may be at risk of a genetic heart condition so it's not your typical way because we would have known it in the olden days of you know the massive heart attack somebody's grandfather age 90 plus however horrific that is and that absolutely is a loss of a life as well but this is particularly looking at the genetic sudden the cardiac death or the sudden adult death syndrome as sometimes we hear it in the media so we're really very grateful how are you supported though because that is a facility that would require great great resources to run and maintain and to especially offer it for free so how how do you manage to support that when I say you I mean the cry Ireland organization yeah so we're very lucky that we are now partners with the HSE and Tallah University hospital so that obviously covers the cost of the clinical screening so the echoes the ECGs that full program to get people fully assessed from a cardiac point of view then from a charity point of view from offering the family support program and a national helpline to families all over Ireland and the emotional support so the grief counseling the psychotherapy family events and you know that mentoring program that we hold from like Eleanor described so somebody rings it might be a mom who's lost a son I put them in touch with another mom and then we have you know we've online support meetings we face to face support meetings and so all of that is done on the really good will of the families and the Irish public in terms of fundraising mini marathon and fundraising events all around the country that happen all the time it's the good will and its community is really in Ireland and Greg that have been affected or no family that has been affected and I might just say like we depend solely the charity depends solely on the good will of the people just in case people see an event or something and Elena I'm listening to Elaine intently but I'm thinking on you at the same time in that this terrible loss that you experienced just four years after losing your husband and at the same time presumably as a mom feeling that you might have to be there to for your daughter's beautiful good news uh you know and to allow her the space to say that you know I'm happy for you as well and for that not to be even through her own grief for that not to be forever tarnished by this awful experience and then your mind then does move to well is this genetic who else might be affected and could this happen again it's just a an awful burden Eleanor that you and others in a similar position have had to bear well when my daughter really I felt so sorry for her because she had just given birth to her baby then her one and only brother who she was very close to had died so there was an awful lot going on in her life as well and when Gareth died the his death certificate stated that it was sudden adult death syndrome now there's no real history of that in the family at the time we were very lucky that my daughter was able to go down to Tallah and get screened again all free of charge which is absolutely wonderful that they can do this for us and she went and got screened and came home with a heart monitor and whatnot on her and thank goodness she is fine and but it still leaves the question that I often think why did my son's heart suddenly stop for no apparent reason so and it just makes you think it also makes you think and I just felt with losing my husband then losing my only son why did I have two hits as such yeah but and at the same time I think well why not me and you know it happens to people every day so you just have to get on with life yeah and a lot of kind of asking do you through cry now you're a volunteer with cry so it could be someone who's recently bereaved or or maybe when it's they feel they're able to talk or want to talk do you speak to other people now who've also lost children to support them uh and and if so how does that impact you as you still navigate life without sorry can you hear me Ella now well it's actually yes I'm just you're you're coming in on out but I can hear you now in actual fact Greg um it's very good therapy for me because I know of one particular lady that I can think of and she needed to know immediately about Gareth it was so important to her which I totally understood it was so important to her that she knew how how brokenhearted she was I had experienced the same thing so once she heard my story then she knew she could open up to me and tell me her story and really it was quite amazing that her story and my story were so similar in that we had the same feelings our life was totally shattered and all different similarities of feelings so it was so important that you can talk about that and the deepness of that and not everyone well not everyone will understand that and the only person that will understand that is someone that has lost a child like you Eleanor um we uh we'll all be thinking on you tomorrow um for the anniversary of Gareth's passing just so you know that we'll all be thinking on you and and and to use your analogy I hope that the snow is not too deep for you tomorrow thank you very much indeed Greg thank you thank you for getting in contact with us uh and as I say best wishes uh not just for for dealing with tomorrow but going forward there's a date every month I'm sure uh that that that brings this all tumbling home whenever not that you need a date but thank you very much indeed um Elaine if anyone wishes uh to support cry get more information engaged with the services because as I say people come to these types of services at different times it could be immediately it could be a little way down the road it absolutely is Greg and I suppose just at the end of that and thank you to Eleanor as well we're we're also very proud of her to be part of team cry but just to say we also support families and people who are going through that screening process so some people come to us Greg that fortunately haven't lost a loved one through sudden cardiac death but may have had themselves or a family member or loved one who has had a collapse or um you know an instance like that um that now they they they are deemed they they should have genetic cardiac screening and that could be a really difficult road for people the anxiety around it and then for some the actual diagnosis of you know hearing the words well actually you do have this genetic condition which is wonderful that they're picked up from an awareness point of view however for a lot of people that can be a loss of a lifestyle and a life that they once had um and while that's not a loss it as in a death or a bereavement or a grief it's a loss of something for a young person maybe that they can't play football anymore they can't play rugby at the same level anymore whatever and that's you know again so i think it's just really important to get that message across this morning that we're also here to support those people right okay people can get more information presumably through your socials and a website so just point us to the website to get online so the website is www.crycry.ie and our free phone helpline number from northern Ireland in the UK is free phone 0044 8006 406 280 or mobile number my mobile number to send a text or voice note and somebody will get back to them and you know without delay is 087 217 4205 and i'll just call out the website again it's www.crycardiacrisk.ie and we're based in Dublin but we support families throughout the whole of Ireland the 32 counties across the island okay thanks very much for all your time take care of yourself okay that's Elaine Whelan and also Eleanor Abbott who lost her on son Gareth whose anniversary is tomorrow it's so difficult isn't it what people have to go through and just the strength and the words of Elaine and how she phrases things and how that works for her of course is just amazing all right okay we're going to be back with more shortly watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account it's the 50 percent off mega summer sale at 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business matters podcast which is up and ready for uh your enjoyment already kieran how are you getting on good morning great how are you i'm doing fantastic how's your week been so far very good did you do anything nice interesting not really running all the stuff keep keep ahead of myself be sure to be ready on a wednesday morning boom as the priority on our choosing it boom okay uh we'll talk about the pardon a sec let's get some news though uh environmental sustainability in the workplace program what's this about yeah a new initiative by donigal etb and a set to run an environmental sustainability in the workplace program with the qualification being offered as part of their evening class provision it's 14 week course aimed at those looking to acquire a general knowledge and understanding of environmental sustainability and obviously we're going to have to use that knowledge then greg to support sustainable practices in the workplace so we're starting on wednesday september the sixth the course will run from six to nine each evening and more information is available on donigal etb's social media platforms all right so the robots are taking over i see google's new computer is able to compute i can't remember the exact statistics but it's able to compute um it's able to compute so fast it would take the current best computer 30 years to do the work it can do now instantly uh and artificial intelligence has gone to become part of all of our lives in the not too distant future it's already there let's uh let's call it as it is uh but there's a survey carried out to sort of get a sense of the public's awareness of the i've been talking about it for over a year now no one's biting uh well maybe they are what's the story yeah as uh one in four people greg a son back of a survey and donigal believe artificial intelligence will impact or replace their jobs in the future and this was a survey that was conducted by recruitment agency f or s recruitment the survey also found that two out of three people donigal would move jobs for a salary increase of 25 less while almost half feel their salary there's not fairly reflect their current position that's an interesting one before you move on because that also might talk to how happy and content they are in their jobs here yeah i suppose the next line actually fits in very well great to that because just under half the people across the county believe that they're more likely to progress in their career by changing jobs rather than staying with their current employer and two to three believe they could secure a new job and three months or less so they're quite confident about it there more interesting is the fact that half of the people that were surveyed also expect to receive a pay raise in the next 12 months so they're quite optimistic as well yeah they are my my moving job it's a funny one all right yeah um as i say and i was speaking to people in various industries industries with telecommunications support and stuff not so long ago and they are still not really quite sure how ai is going to fit all into that space because i'm not sure everyone realizes what it can already do i mean you have trial programs now which are available in beta whereas you can say uh you know hey google or okay google i hope i'm not triggering triggering everyone speakers out there but you can say book me an appointment at my hairdressers for wednesday the fifth of august it is rings up in a human voice and and rings the hairdresser does it itself has a human like calm it's really remarkable as to say it's right and great i'm frightening and exciting and you know i'm you're nearly of two i'm nearly two or three and they start to get too much under because the the the the consequence of what's happening as well the ultimately it comes down to differentiating between fact and fiction yeah and that's the dilemma we're going to have like they are the worrying thing in terms of anything that can happen in the world at any time like the the one of the most basic evolutions of ai recently they asked it to solve a problem okay and it went off and learned bangladeshian in its entirety to solve the problem it it didn't have to but the the artificial intelligence chose to instantly learned a completely different language to problem solve uh you know beyond its instruction i'm not saying it's thinking but it's remarkable where it's going and let's just say these are just the early iterations of it i don't know i think mean uh certainly i'll be redundant not this week i thought this week in a short number of years i think we'll keep you know all right i don't know all right tip on the awards yes greg three people will be honored with the tip on the iris diaspora award for 2023 at a presentation ceremony in the initial gateway hotel on saturday september the 16th the recipients this year are professor william c campbell from a melton who people will know receive the nobel prize for medicine in 2015 buncran native caroline mcglotten who is a leading representative of the irish diaspora community in the uk and john t fries a first generation irish american whose fellow was born and raised in kill mccrinnon so the wire is presented by donagall county council and is to recognize those who have excelled in their chosen field whilst honest whilst honoring their contribution and its diaspora yeah it's really lovely to see how that has grown i remember doing initially interviews when it was just being launched and i didn't really know what it what it didn't know what it was or where it was going to go and now it's a mainstay and what a trio of uh recipients there okay uh letter candy chamber survey what's it telling us yeah it is conducting a second business sentiment survey for 2023 the chamber is keen to gain a better understanding of the challenges that businesses are currently facing and it's hoped that this latest survey will help it build an accurate picture of the local economic landscape and i think on the basis of that it will help their lobbying exploits if for when they're going to go and sort of maybe seek help at national level so the survey will take around 10 minutes to complete any information will be anonymized and treated in the strictest of confidence and the chambers social media platforms have the link for that yeah and of course another interesting aspect of that is you get to check the findings of this survey when they become available with the findings of the first and then yeah so it's a good work Greg you know we're supposed and i suppose it's the only way that that that and the obviously the chamber is a major player here so it's a good way of actually gazing what's going on maybe what needs to be addressed all right car sales on the up yeah we're halfway through the year Greg new care registration for the first six months of the year and then i go saw an increase of four percent so 1543 new cars were sold from january to june in 2022 and that's compared to 1604 during the same period in 2023 and just in relation to new electrical vehicle registrations because i knew you were probably going to ask me if i haven't got it there's been an increase of 77 percent so starting from low base for the first six months of 2022 113 EVs were sold and then i go and that's compared to exactly 200 between january between january and june this year and nationally Greg registrations year to year are up 18.8 percent 77 488 new cars compared to 65 211 now can i have the breakdown in EVs can i have the breakdown please a full electric uh plug-in hybrid and uh no no because they weren't they weren't there for for for consumers thank god you can go check it out yourself that's all you're getting right okay we'll be back we'll be back with a look forward to the podcast thanks for the news we'll be back with an actual look forward to what's coming up in the podcast after this break nine one oh two one two seven for great value in suits visit 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campsite of the year at the ireish hospitality awards in dublin a teacher and youth worker kieran currently employs five young people at his facility and this clip of greg kieran recalls the moment he decided to return to the gall and try and make his boyhood dream a reality i have this idea in my head since i was 12 years of age as a boy you know and luckily that my grandmother had farmland either side of the hill one field towards the cliffs at sleeve league and the other up the pilgrim's path um i was always into outdoor pursuits hike and run myself camping and no matter where i went after finishing school um to dublin or travel in the world i always had this in the back of my mind i was going to return someday to dunny gall and i was going to start a campsite and that happened about nine years ago the idea came back into my head after traveling i was teaching over in thailand for two years and i came home and or back to dublin and i remember sitting on the m50 heading back to work one day back to the job where i got a sabbatical from and it was a miserable day in november and i was looking at people next door to me in the traffic you know on the m50 and i said life has to be more than this so that 12 year old idea boy in my head just came back and i goes i'm going to think about this campsite idea once more one more time good man kiran i think lots must be sitting at the m50 kiran and we say uh god that's to be more than life than this yeah and then change the radio channel and crack on with it but he uh he's followed his dream there and it seems a huge success man to be employing and supporting five young people and also to to bag that prestigious award in a relatively young company uh it's it's great that his drive is being rewarded isn't it kiran a great success to me uh i'm a new kiran and i met him in there in kenny at the i think it was during the the first reopening phase uh after the first lockdown uh around everyone's mentioning lockdown today every every item has come up we haven't talked about it for so long but anyway sorry kiran i'm ruining your flow yeah and i met him down down there in kenny and he was telling me that he had this idea and then um it was about the go but covert obviously um with the the impact it had on the construction industry so it was sort of snooker that it was a bit of a worrying period for him but around may in 2021 the government gave the green light for the construction industry greg um kiran was ready to go and within a few months hit the campsite open it's opened just over two years and uh it's really gone from from strength to strength he won that national award uh best campsite at the avers hospitality awards and it's a phenomenal success story two years done employing five people as you say he regards the campsite as a sort of base camp for hikers uh a massive growth industry and he's developed the campsite over three different phases and when you have 250 people staying over the last bank holiday weekend that's proof in itself i used to do a bit of caravan he never went further than karak and shannon and i didn't really feel that i need to because i'm really the point i'm getting to is here if you want a break you can actually do it in your own county in a different part of the county because everywhere's different different aspects different things to do be here or the pods in creasel or the uh pods in uh wherever they might be there's there there's these fantastic facilities all over the place but it's great to get away for two or three days get out of the familiarity of it feels like a holiday you know what i mean it's uh i love that yeah i mean if i'm going on holidays i want to go on holidays on a plane but for little breaks i don't really travel outside don't go i don't feel like you're very much in control of your own destiny too you can come and go and stop and stay are we villageing out now and more yeah at tori hotel you know if you want something really different you do really in your backyard in relation to those you know those uh grapple city dimension say there's the sport and port there's creasel and there's tailing they're all very much central to the area where they are in and there's so much to do with in a very short space of time but during our interview Greg um two different people came in uh inquiring so we just let the tape run so there was a woman from France wondering where she was so we just let let the thing run so um it was a long way from his uh stock was in 50 there was no sunshine that day but uh he's very happy of what is done and it's a great great to hear it okay now um the hugely prestigious letter Kenny chamber of commerce business awards aren't too far away now yeah they're taking place Greg on Friday November the 10th and the class right Friday November the 10th and the clan re and letter Kenny but the deadline for applications is Friday July the 14th that's Friday week at 12 noon uh i spoke to Tony uh for us during the week about the words and on this clip she explains how businesses and the public can get involved in the process they just go on to our website click business awards right at the top of the website pick a category and apply and you can apply for more than one category you can really do what you want you fill in the question you have to fill in the questions as much detail as possible what happens then is we will probably have we will have an independent step where someone goes out because someone over online or phones there's no more we'll talk to the entry get a wee bit more information if we need it and then the judge and the independent judge panel will pick the shortlisted and then we usually have an open a bit of a public poll on that in from September on all right okay so much more from Tony and uh Tony and Karen in your podcast uh Karen yeah um just in relation to the the chamber awards there they have two new words this year Greg one on this the young business person of the year uh so it's four months away so it's goes to show how much work is involved and actually pulling all that together um the chamber has 300 plus members 8 000 employees so they're obviously a very big player in the business and they work really hard actually yeah it's only in it's only in conversation that i uh it's not today or yesterday that i realized this but in terms of representing those businesses locally regionally and nationally with events in Dublin whatever there's far more goes into a chamber of commerce than it's not just an umbrella group for businesses it does so much more in terms of meetings all of the time engagements supports yeah a lot to it yeah you chaired the panel discussion at the uh president's lunch that was hosted by Fnori Rabbit uh back in that last month in the radish and hotel so as well that was a good another freebie well it was a work it was a work of lunch i don't want to see what these boys know and other places again i ever made a shilly outside of highland that was free what else have i done for free went down to Dublin to speak at a radio conference i thought all right this is a nice little mixer isn't it free not a shilling well i've got a hotel room out of the Dublin one how do who's this agent what's his name i don't know how do they do it i'll i'll get you his number i beg every day for a free stay in a pod and nothing we'll do it we'll do what we're finished nothing will someone grease my greasy palms with money i'll ask brandy veney to give you seventy thousand euro cars we got a free trip on the boat for you very shortly what i literally asked for one i was begging no go on i didn't really go i don't know where we're going but uh look the chamber just relation to the their standing that they have not even ryan no i'm only joking so the standing that they have and they they do have a lot of a lot of power coming together collectively and i've been this in the series of most what the next move is one of whatever go to the lobby for next brilliant so i don't know how you kept going through that anyway i'm only joking okay full interviews for years of practice full interviews with kieran and tony are available to download right now or stream on our website highlandradio.com or on spotify or iTunes and for those who like to listen to it on the radio at a lovely scheduled time when is that kieran yeah aftley slash clock news greg on sunday and if anyone wants to get in contact with you what's the best way to do so yeah just drop me an email please plus his matters at highlandradio.com right and it's a nice plan for the weekend doing any running or do you either run go and watch a bit of football who are you gonna go and watch play and i've got 30 seconds to show you know and uh knave carnell are playing in the league um i think i said much here for saturday sunday and or donald park so we'll go and watch that all right good stuff kieran enjoy that thanks i think it was really nice of them to name that ground after you as well you're welcome really really nice of them okay i'm kieran or donald there business matters podcast available for you right now and kieran will be back with us all being well after 11 next wednesday okay that's where we have to leave it on the show today thank you to all of you who listened watched took part in the show it's